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DR.  WILLIAM  S.  EVANS,   (I)eceastd). 

MARION,     ILLINOIS. 

Aged  96  years.     Died  since  this  book  was  begun. 


HISTORICAL  SOUVENIR 


OF 


WILLIAMSON  COUNTY 

ILLINOIS 


Being  a  Brief  Review  of  the  County  from   Date 
of  Founding  to  the   Present 


COMPILED  ANn  EniTEC 


J.  F.  WILCOX 


ILLUSTRATED 


PUBLISHED    BV 

THE   LeCRONE   press 

EFFINGHAM,    ILL. 


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PREFACE 

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— printed,  illustrated,  bound  and  delivered.  They  never  know  of  the  weary  days  of  the  canvasser; 
the  exhausting  drudgery  of  the  brain  wracking  burner  of  the  midnight  oil  as  he  grinds  but  his  grist; 
the  patient,  never-ceasing,  yet  swift  and  unerring  compositor  as  he  nimbly  fingers  the  leaden  mes- 
sengers; or  the  lightning-like  manipulator  of  the  linotype  miracle.  They  know  not  the  woes  of  that 
universal  walking  encyclopedia,  the  proof-reader:  or  the  vexations  of  the  editor.  No  sooner  do 
they  read  or  hear  of  a  new  book,  then  it  is  on  the  market.  The  dear  public  is  out  for  entertainment; 
it  looks  for  good  lights  and  a  comfortable  seat,  fine  music  and  an  interesting  play,  and  it- is  not  ex- 
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is  not  astonished  that  the  dear  innocent  public  looked  for  the  work  of  months  to  be  accomplished  in 
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their  interest  through  the  eighteen  months  of  arduous  labor  required  to  perfect  the  volurdn  now 
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To  the  few  who  lent  a  helping  hand  he  offers  the  grateful  incense  of  the  belated  footsore 
traveler  caught  in  the  darkness,  rain  and  mud,  to  the  driver  of  a  brisk  span  and  a  covered  buggy 
who  ""gives  him  a  lift",  and  whirls  him  to  his  journey's  end.  So  the  '"Souvenir  Book  man"  wants 
particularly  to  acknowledge  his  indebtedness  to  Judge  Geo.  W.  Young  for  the  valuable  historical 
matter  furnished  bj'  him,  without  which  it  would  have  been  scarcely  possible  to  succeed.  The  Pub- 
lic Schools,  as  far  as  they  are  interested  in  the  book,  will  join  the  autlior  in  thanks  to  Hon.  R.  O. 
;yj  Clarida.  superintendent  of  public  schools;  Prof.  J.  W.  Asbui-y,  principal  of  Marion  city  schools;  to 

-^  Professors  Turner,   Lentz  and  others  at  Carterville,  Herrin,   Creal  Springs  and  elsewhere  for  the 

^  valuable  biographical  and  historical  matter  and  other  data  furnished.      To  the  hundreds  of  pronii- 

^  nent  citizens  whose  portraits  appear  in  the  book  for  the  unselfish  aid  rendered,   without  whose 

^  generous  cooperation  it  would  have  been  impossible  to  have  accomplished  the  task.     "jTo  the  profes- 

H  sional  gentlemen,  particularly  to  the  large  corps  of  physicians,  members  of  the  bench  and  bar,  min- 

isters, bankers,  and  business  men  generally  a  hearty  and  grateful  acknowledgement  for  ready  and 
cheerful  acquiescence  and  efficient  aid  in  the  arduous  undertaking  is  the  least  that  can  be  rendered 
by  a  grateful  and  weary  old  man.     The  book  itself,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  will  not  be  a  disappointment. 
fj>  Its  mechanical  execution  refiects  credit  upon  the  incomparable  workmen  connected  |with  the  Le- 

^  Crone  Press  of  Effingham,  111. ,  who  did  the  job.  THE   AUTHOR. 

U  Effingham,  111.,  November  15,  1905. 


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"MARION" 

BY  MRS.  M.  J.   SPARKS 


BACK  in  the  last  of  the  "Thirties" 
While  yet  the  state  was  young, 
Where  undisturbed  on  bush  or  bough 

The  birds  of  the  forest  sung, 
Was  born  an  infant  city, 

A  babe  in  the  wilderness, 
While  the  Autumn  breezes  swept  its  brow 
With  a  lingering,  fond  caress. 


No  towering  mountains  guarded 
The  spot  where  the  hamlet  lay; 
No  mighty  river  brought  it 
wealth 
And  commerce  day  by  day. 
No  scenery   picturesque  and 
grand 
Brought     travelers     from 
afar. 
Yet   who   shall   say   it    was 
not  born 
Beneath  a  luckj'  star. 

For    steadily    has    it     pros- 
pered 
Through   many   a    month 
and  year; 
And  stately  buildings proud- 
Iv  stand 
Where     herded     once     the 
deer. 
And  o'er  the  plain  where  the 
"whip-per-will" 
Oft  called  to  its  mate  afar. 
Now    is  heard  the  engine's 
whistle, 
And  the  hum  of  the  trolley 
car. 


MRS.   M.  J.  SPARKS,  the  Author. 


The  boys  who  marched  with  Logan 

In  those  trying  days  of  old 
Stood  bravely  by  their  colors 

Till  slavery's  knell  was  tolled. 
No  braver  soldiers  ever 

Sprang  to  their  country's  aid. 
Than  those  men  of  ours  who  followed  the  flag 

While  the  fife  and  bugle  played. 

And  when  the  strife  was  over, 
.And  freedom's  cause  was  won. 

How  proudly  were  they  wel- 
comed back, 
Each     husband,     brother, 
son! 
But  many,  alas,  were   miss- 
ing 
Of  those  heroes   tried   and 
true; 
And  others  yet  were   swing- 
ing 
An  empty  sleeve  of  blue. 


And  no  more  generous  peo- 
ple 
In  this  wide  universe. 
E'er  helped  a  friend  in  trou- 
ble 
Or  opened  wide  the  purse 
When  an  unlucky  stranger 
Appealed  to  them  for  aid; 
Or  the  widow  and   the  or- 
phan 
Their    plea    for    shelter 
made. 


And  a  thousand  lighted  casements 

Make  cheerful  now  the  night 
Where  the  camp-fire  of  the  red  man 

Once  shed  its  fitful  light. 
They  builded  better  than  they  knew. 

Those  pioneers  of  old; 
They  reckoned  not  what  march  of  time 

Three  score  of  years  unfold. 

Now  schools  and  churches  lift  their  spires 

Above  the  busy  street 
Where  the  pavement  echoes  the  live-long  day 

The  tread  of  hurrying  feet. 
While  in  the  place  of  honor. 

The  center  of  the  square. 
The  county's  capitol  proudly  stands 

And  shelters  "Justice"  there. 

Thrice  in  our  city's  histor3' 

Was  raised  war's  dread  alarms; 
And  Marion's  boys  were  prompt  to  heed 

The  call  to  shoulder  arms. 
And  bravely  too  through  heat  and  cold 

They  served  their  country  well; 
The  stars  and  stripes  they  followed 

Through  storms  of  shot  and  shell. 


Our  town  has  furnished  its  quota 

Of  notable  women  and  men; 
It  has  sent  out  statesmen,  instructors, 

Lawj'ers,  physicians,  and  then 
We  remember  one  woman,  at  least. 

Who  gl.  dly  to  China  was  sent 
To  carry  the  light  of  the  Gospel 

To  souls  in  the  dark  Orient. 

Who  knows  what  the  future  may  hold 

In  store  for  the  town  of  our  pride? 
Perchance  ere  another  decade 

Her  name  shall  be  known  far  and  wide 
As  a  manufacturing  center; 

For  coal  fields  unlimited  lie 
On  either  hand  and  are  hastening  to  bring 

Her  day  of  prosperity  nigh. 

Yes,  gladly  we  follow  the  history 

Of  our  town  through  its  three-score  of  years,. 

And  gratefully  speak  of  each  pioneer 
Whose  name  in  its  annals  appears. 

Through  labor  and  hardship  undaunted 
They  built  in  the  wilderness  lone 

The  fairest  and  best  town  in  Egypt- 
Marion,  our  pride  and  our  own  ! 


HISTORY    OF    WILLIAMSON    COUNTY 


WILLIAMSON  County  lies  in 
Southern  Illinois,  on  the  di- 
viding ridge  between  the  Ohio  and 
the  Mississippi  rivers,  and  between 
parallels  3  7  degrees  30  minutes  and 
38  degrees  North  Latitude.  The 
meridian    of    89    degrees    of    Longi- 


tude west  from  Greenwich  passes 
about  three  miles  west  of  Marion, 
and  corresponds  with  the  12th  de- 
gree of  Longitude  west  from  Wash- 
ington. It  is  composed  of  town- 
ships S,  9  and  10  south,  and  Ranges 
1,  2,  3  and   4  east,  and  is,  therefore. 


in  the  form  of  a  rectangular  paral- 
lelogram, twenty-four  miles  from 
east  to  west,  and  eighteen  miles 
from  north  to  south,  thus  contain- 
ing 432  square  miles  or  207,480 
acres.  It  is  bounded  on  the  north 
b.v   Franklin   County,  on   the  e  st   by 


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LOG    CABIN    OF    WM.    WATSON. 

One    of    the    oldest    buildings    in    the    city,    built    in    Marion    in    1845.    vVilliani    Watson    and    his   wife 

Sit  at    the    right    hand,    Mrs.    Robinson    at    the   left. 


THERE  are  (luite  a  number  of 
homes  in  Marion  which  as- 
pire to  the  honor  of  being  the  very 
first  home  erected  on  the  present 
site  of  the  city  of  Marion,  but  care- 
ful inquiry  among  the  oldest  inhab- 
itants decided  an  ancient  log  cabin 
Stan  Mng  near  the  Edward's  flour- 
ing mills  and  fronting  West  Main 
street,  just  east  of  the  C.  &  E.  I. 
Railroad  tracks.  Mr.  Lewis  Cal- 
vert, however,  insists  that  the  old 
Calvert  house,  put  up  by  his  broth- 
er in  18  4.5,  was  the  first  and  the 
log  cabin  built   in   1847,  the  second. 

It  is  now  occupied  by  colored  peo- 
ple, William  Watson  and  his  wife, 
and  Mrs.  Robinson,  who  have  lived 
in  it  continuously  since  1882.  A 
picture  of  the  ancient  structure  is 
given   herewith. 

It  was  built  in  1843  or  41  by 
George  Felts  and  John  Hooper,  who 
put  up  the  cabin  to  have  a  place  to 
live  in  while  building  the  mill  which 
stands  near  it.  The  cabin  is  double, 
with  a  passage  way  three  feet  wide 
through  the  center  and  three  rooms 


on  each  side.  There  is  a  loft  over- 
heai  for  storage  or  sleeping  pur- 
poses, reached  by  a  pair  of  steep 
stairs  in  the  corner  of  each  divis- 
ion. The  ceiling  is  only  about  six 
feet  or  six  and  a  half  feet  hish,  and 
can  be  easily  reached  by  the  hand. 
The  floor  is  of  puncheons  or  hewed 
logs,  and  the  roof  of  oak  "shakes" 
or  split  boards.  It  fronts  the  south 
and  stands  on  a  little  knoll  among 
trees  of  different  sorts.  The  sides 
and  ends  are  covered  with  clap- 
boards, and  chimneys  of  sticks  laid 
up  in  mud  originally  stood  at  cither 
end. 

Mr.  G.  W.  C.  McCoy  tells  me  that 
the  occasion  of  building  the  cabin 
was  as  follows: 

It  seems  that  Captain  .lames  Cun- 
ningham and  Milton  and  Dr.  Jona- 
than Mulkey,  seeing  the  necessity 
of  having  a  flouring  mill  for  this 
region  bought  the  necessary  ma- 
chinery and  had  it  shipped  to  Mar- 
ion, before  the  town  was  built  and 
before  railroads  existed  in  these 
parts,   with   the   intention   of   putting 


up  a  flour  mill.  But,  being  ignorant 
of  the  whole  business,  they  could 
do  nothing  with  the  machinery,  nor 
could  they  find  a  man  in  a  dozen 
counties  who  could.  At  last,  how- 
ever, Felts  and  Hooper  heard  of  the 
situation  and  seeing  their  opportu- 
nity, came  down  from  Franklin, 
bought  the  outfit  for  a  song  and 
erected  the  first  grist  and  saw  mill 
ever  put  up  in  the  county.  It  was 
run  by  steam  and  people  came  with 
their  grain  from  many  miles  around 
to  get  their  grists  ground.  So  great 
was  the  demand  that  they  often  had 
to  wait  three  and  four  weeks  for 
their  turn.  So  busy  were  the  enter- 
prising millers  with  their  saw  mill 
and  grinding  that  they  had  no  time 
to  build  them  a  new  house  and  lived 
in  their  log  cabin  and  run  their  mill 
for  many  years.  The  old  mill  finally 
burned  down  and  was  replaced  by 
the  present  brick  structure,  but  the 
old  log  cabin  still  stands  and  af- 
fords a  home  to  a  couple  of  hard- 
working Christian  women  and  their 
helpless   companion. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLINOIS. 


Saline  County,  on  the  south  by 
Johnson  County  and  on  the  west  by 
Jackson  County.  A  circle  of  fifty 
miles  would  pass  through  North 
Cairo,  about  half  way  between  Cairo 
and  Mound  City;  cross  the  Ohio  at 
Paducah  and  again  at  Smithland, 
Ky.,  pass  through  Marion  Ky., 
about  ten  miles  east  of  Elizabeth- 
town,  cross  the  Wabash  and  the 
Ohio  near  their  junction,  about  ten 
miles  northeast  of  Shawneeto.vn, 
just  miss  Carnii,  White  County, 
and  Fairfield,  in  Wayne  County, 
leaves  Mt.  Vernon  ten  miles  south 
and  Salem,  the  same  distance  to  the 
north:  passes  through  Nashville, 
the  county  seat  of  Washington, 
Sparta  and  Chester,  in  Randolph, 
and  crossing  the  river  at  that  place, 
just  miss  Perryville,  Jackson  and 
Benton,  Mo.  Its  nearest  point  to 
the  Ohio  is  at  Golconda,  o5  miles 
distant,  and  the  same  from  Vine- 
land,  on  the  Mississippi  River,  near 
Jonesboro,  the  county  seat  of  Union 
County. 

Williamson  County  is  one  of  the 
most  fertile  and  productive  of  the 
district,  popularly  known  as  Egypt 
from  its  great  fertility  and  the  fact 
that  it  supplied  for  a  long  time  the 
more  newly  settled  parts  of  the 
state   with   food. 

The  northern  and  southern  por- 
tions of  the  County  are  rolling  and 
somewhat  broken,  but  not  suffi- 
ciently so  to  prevent  successful  cul- 
tivation; while  the  central  parts  are 
level,     and    thirty     and    forty     years 


ago  quite  marshy  in  some  sections. 
With  drainage  and  cultivation,  how- 
ever, the  marshes  have  long  since 
disappeared,  and  corn  ani  cattle 
flourish  where  the  bull-frog  once 
made  night   musical. 

The  County  was  originally  heav- 
ily timbered,  but  the  annual  fires, 
for  which  the  hunters  and  their 
dusky  brethren,  the  Indians,  were 
mainly  responsible,  checked  the 
growth  and  turned  much  of  it  into 
what  is  known  as  "oak  openings." 
But  with  the  disappearance  of  the 
Indian  and  the  subsidence  of  the 
annual  fires,  the  forest  has  again 
asserted  its  supremacy,  and  the 
former  "oak  openings"  are  covered 
with  a  heavy  growth  of  young  tim- 
ber. 

The  great  increase  in  coal  mining 
an  1  railroad  building,  however,  is 
rapidly  using  up  the  timber,  and  fat 
pastures  are  taking  the  place  of 
woodlands.  There  is  a  water-shed 
which  begins  near  the  northeast  cor- 
ner of  the  County  and  extends 
southwestwardly  to  the  Village  of 
Crab  Orchard;  thence  it  runs  in  a 
more  westerly  direction  to  the 
northeastern  corner  of  Southern 
Township;  thence  across  said  town- 
ship to  the  south  line  of  Section  33, 
where  it  leaves  the  County.  About 
one-third  of  the  surface  of  the 
County  lies  sloping  to  the  southeast 
of  this  water-shed,  and  is  drained 
by  the  Bad^eley,  Bank  Lick,  Brushy 
Rock  and  Saline  creeks,  which  flow 
into   the  Ohio  River.        The  balance 


of  the  County  slopes  towarJ  the 
northwest  and  is  drained  by  Pond 
Lake  and  Crab  Orchard  Creeks  and 
the  Big  Muddy  River,  which  flows 
into  the   Mississippi. 


Geological  formatton. 

The  discovery  of  coal  in  Wil- 
liamson County  and  the  great  de- 
velopment of  the  industry  has  made 
its  geological  formation  and  his- 
tory of  one  special  interest  and  im- 
portance. The  limits  of  this  volume, 
however,  compel  us  to  leave  the  sci- 
entific treatment  of  the  subject  to 
specialists  in  that  line,  and  deal 
with  it  only  from  a  practical  point 
of  view. 

There  is  very  little  limestone 
found  in  the  county,  not  enough  to 
be  of  any  commercial  value,  but  a 
brown  sandstone  found  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Crab  Orchard  dresses  well 
anl  hardens  on  exposure;  and  an 
abundance  of  good  brick  clay  is 
found    on    almost    every    farm. 

To  the  casual  observer  the  soil  of 
Williamson  County  will  be  regarded 
as  thin  and  poor,  as  it  is  largely  a 
yellowish  clay,  but  with  proper  till- 
age it  will,  and  has  produced  ex- 
cellent crops  of  corn,  wheat,  pota- 
toes, cotton  and  tobacco.  "Of  late 
years,  however,  farmers  are  com- 
plaining of  a  falling  off  in  produc- 
tion, and  are  turning  their  attention 
to   cattle   and   fruit-raising. 

Continual  cropping  of  corn  and 
wheat  and  an  entire  neglect  of  prop- 


THE   OLD   C.M.VIOKT    HOME. 

Oldest    residence    in    Marion  now  standing,   built  by  N.   B.  Calvert   in    1842.       Now   owned 

by  John   B.    Heyde   and   used   for   a    blacksmith    shop   and    agricultural    tool    storage. 


This  venerable  old  relic  once  the 
"swell"  mansion  of  a  prosperous 
citizen  of  Marion,  but  now  degraded 
into  a  smutty  blacksmith's  shop 
and  a  place  to  store  agricultural 
implements,  was  built  by  N.  B.   Cal- 


vert in  1842,  the  year  he  married. 
Here  he  raised  his  family  and  here 
he  died  in  1SS2.  The  old  home- 
stead passed  into  the  hands  of  its 
present  owner,  John  B.  Heyde,  Oc- 
tober   4,    1889,    and    was    run    then 


as   now   as   a   blacksmith     shop     and 
farm   implements. 

Mr.  Heyde  boasts  of  being  the 
oldest  man  in  the  business  and  of 
never  having  lost  three  days  from 
his  business  on   account  of  sickness. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUN'I'Y,  ILLINOIS. 


HON.    C.    H,    DENNiaON,    AI.AYOR    OF    MARION. 


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SOUVENIR   OI'    WILLIAMSOX   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


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Deceased. 


W.    W.    DUNCAN. 
.Judge    of    Circuit    Court. 


1..    D.    HAKT\VEI>1.. 
States    Attorney. 


er  rotation  of  crops  or  fertilization, 
will,  in  time,  exhaust  the  fertility 
of  any  soil,  even  of  "Egypt."  Ne- 
cessity has,  therefore,  compelled  the 
tillers  of  the  soil  to  abandon  old 
methods  for  new  and  increasing 
prosperity  results.  When  corn,  in 
the  early  days,  was  the  only  crop, 
some  of  the  thin  clay  soils  were  re- 
garded as  of  little  value,  but  peo- 
ple have  discovered  that  land  which 
will  not  pay  the  rent  when  put  into 
corn  or  wheat  will  yield  an  abund- 
ant and  profitable  harvest  of  all 
kinds   of   fruit   and   vegetables. 

All  varieties  of  berries,  beginning 
with  the  luscious  strawberry,  thrive 
in  unequalled  luxuriance  in  this 
part  of  "Egypt."  The  time  was, 
and  not  very  long  ago,  when  a  ten- 
acre  strawberry  patch  was  a  mar- 
vel, but  fields  of  forty  and  eighty 
acres  are  now  "as  thick  as  black- 
berries." 

Think  of  a  train  of  twenty-five  ov 


thirty  cars  loaded  with  strawberries 
going  over  one  line  of  roa  i  to  Chi- 
cago daily  for  weeks,  and  some  idea 
of  the  immense  traffic  in  that 
luscious  fruit  in  its  season  may  be 
gained.  We  do  not  say  that  this 
county  alone  does  that,  but  it  adds 
its  full  quota  to  the  general  output 
of  "Egypt"  in  that  particular. 

Following  the  strawberry,  from 
early  May  on  through  the  season, 
Pomona  is  the  settler's  gold  mine. 
Currants,  gooseberries,  cherries, 
early  apples,  raspberries,  plums,  ap- 
ricots, peaches,  pears,  grapes, 
quinces,  till,  last  and  chief  of  all, 
comes  the  winter  apple.  It  has 
taken  them  a  long  time  to  ■  find  it 
out,  but  farmers  are  leai-ning  that 
there  is  more  money  for  the  outlay 
in  time  and  labor  in  the  honest, 
good,  old,  long-keeping  winter  .ap- 
ple than  in  almost  anything  else  the 
soil  is  capable  of  producing. 

But  of  late  years  a  very  profitable 


industry  is  springing  up  of  growing 
early  vegetables  for  the  Northern 
markets,  and  vast  quantities  of 
spinach,  peas,  beans,  onions,  pie- 
plant, sweet  and  Irish  potatoes, 
melons,  tomatoes,  etc.,  are  grown 
and  shipped  North  at  a  very  satis- 
fActory  profit.  No  portion  of  South- 
ern Illinois  is  more  capable  of  a  suc- 
cessful prosecution  "f  this  industry 
than  this  County. 

Cotton.  which  was  generally 
grown  here  before,  during,  and  for 
a  few  years  after  the  Civil  War,  is 
no  longer  produced,  it  being  too  far 
north  to  be  a  safe  crop.  Its  most 
flourishing  period  was  while  the 
South  was  hindered  from  producing 
it  by  reason  of  the  Civil  War;  but 
with  the  return  of  peace,  normal 
conditions  prevailed,  the  County 
could  no  longer  compete  with  the 
plant  in  its  natural  home,  and  its 
production  was  almost  entirely 
abandoned. 


SCHOOL    AT    STONE    FORT. 


Cobacco. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the 
Indians  and  the  early  settlers  raised 
their  own  tobacco,  but  it  began  to 
be  raised  for  market  in  1S40.  In 
1849  M.  S.  Ensminger  bought  and 
shipped  to  New  Orleans  1100  hogs- 
heads of  the  weed,  bought  almost 
exclusively  in  this  and  the  adjoin- 
ing Counties. 

So  general  was  the  industry  at 
that  time,  and  so  profitable  as  well, 
that  Marion  was  often  glutted  with 
tobacco  teams  and  loaded  wagons 
at  harvest  time.  As  many  as  50 
loade  1  tobacco  wagons  have  been 
counted  at  one  time  on  the  public 
square,  waiting  to  be  unloaded.  All 
the  farming  community  were  en- 
gaged in  raising,  manufacturing  or 
shipping  the  weed,  and  fortunes 
were  made  and  lost  in  the  business. 
But  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  War 


SOUX'EXIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


11 


the  government  surrounded  the  bus- 
iness with  many  regulations  and  re- 
strictions, and  taxed  the  finished 
product  so  heavily  that  it  discour- 
aged the  raising  of  the  crop,  and, 
declining  prices  reducing  the  profits, 
the  business  gradually  was  aban- 
doned, until  now  none  is  raised  for 
market  in  this  region. 

But   instead   of   tobacco   has   come 
all   the   cereals,  fruits  and  all   kinds 


of  stock,  fat  hogs  and  cattle,  butter, 
eggs     and     poultry.  Horses     and 

mules  are  an  important  feature  of 
trade;  industries  of  various  kinds 
are  springing  up,  as  milling,  lum- 
ber, brick-making,  artificial  ice- 
making,  cold  storage,  electric  light- 
ing and  transportation,  and  above 
all.  coal  mining.  With  the  rapid 
increase  of  population  attending  the 
development    of    the    mining    indus- 


try, has  come  a  large  increase  in 
building:  fine  houses  and  business 
blocks  are  springing  up  all  around, 
and  the  sound  of  the  saw  and  ham- 
mer can  be  heard  at  all  times  every- 
where. Every  town  and  village  in 
the  County  shares  in  the  solid  era 
of  prosperity  which  has  dawned  up- 
on the  County:  wages  are  good,  and 
few  idle  hands  are  to  be  seen  any- 
where. 


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COUKT   HOUSK   OF    \VILI,1A.MS<)\    t'OUXTY. 


W.    W.    DUNCAN, 

Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court. 

L.    D.    HARTWELL, 

States  Attorney. 

L.    B.    PULLEY, 

Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court. 

J.  M.  DODD, 

County  Clerk. 

W.  O.   POTTER, 

llaster   in   Chancery. 

J.   A.   SINKS, 

Court  Reporter. 

RUFUS  NEELY, 

County  Judge. 

R.    R.    FOWLER, 

Justice  of  the  Peace. 


ROSTER  OF  PUBLIC  OFFICERS,  1904. 

ROBERT   P.    HILL, 

Justice  of  the  Peace. 

FRANK    L.    SHRIVES, 

County  Treasurer. 

R.    O.    CLARIDA, 

County   Superintendent  of  Schools. 

C.    H.    DENISON, 

Mayor. 

D.    F.    HARTWELL, 

City    Attorney. 

GEORGE    C.    CAMPBELL, 

City  Clerk. 

H.    S.    HARRIS, 

Sheriff. 

FRANK    THROGMORTON, 

Deputy     Sheriff. 


E.    N.    RICE, 

Coroner. 

J.   V.   GRIDER, 

City  Marshall. 

JAMES  LONG, 

Deputy   Marshall. 

TOM  WATERS, 

Second   Deputy. 

C.  W.  MILLER,  Jailer. 

HENRY   JONES,    Postmaster. 

JAMES   ARTHUR    CAMPBELL, 

Street    Commissioner. 

H.  U.  SHACKELFORD, 

JOHN  McMURRAY, 

CARROLL  MILLER, 

County  Commissioners. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


HON     THOS.    H.   SHERIDAN, 
Attorney  and  Ex-Senator. 


liON.    O.    H.    BURNETT, 
State  Senator. 


Population  of  ^dilUamson  Co. 

1840         Tnt.     4457 

law  White    7149        Colored     i;7  Tot.     7216 

1S60  White  120S7        Colored  Ux  Tot.  122115 

1870  White  17223        Colored   106  Tot.  17H2S 

1880  White  20858        Colored  2.i3  Tot    21111 

1890   Tot.  22226 

1900   Tot.  27796 

Births  from  Jan.  1,  1890,  to  .A  pril  1,  1904: 
Males,  1194     Kemales,  1138    Blacks,  n    Tot.  2.137 

CITY  OF  MARION,  1300. 
According  to  School  Census. 

Over  21 2309 

OfSchoolAge 1583 

POPULATION  IN  COUNTY.  1900. 

Marion 2.^10 

Carterville 1749 

Herrin  1539 

Creal  Springs  940 

Crainville 290 

Crab  Orchard 200 

In  consequence  of  the  i-rcat  in- 
crease in  mining,  tlie  population  of 
Marion,  Carterville,  Herrin  and 
Johnson  City  has  more  than 
doubled  since  the  last  census  was 
taken. 


"Caxatton  and  finances. 

The  taxable  property  in  William- 
son County  in  1S39,  as  talcen  from 
the  records  of  Franklin  County, 
was   as   follows: 

Value  of  lands $27,136 

Personal  Property 139,410 

Total     $166,546 

On  this  property  2  0  cents  was 
levied  on  each  $100  for  state  pur- 
poses, and  2  5  cents  for  county  pur- 
poses, making  in  all  $749.25.  In 
1S40  the  tax  collector  reported  all 
collected  except  $18.01.  which  was 
delinquent,  thus  leaving  $721.23  'Col- 
lected, of  which  $3  25  belonged  to 
the  state  and  $406.23  to  the  county. 
By    comparing    the    above    figures. 


it  will  be  observed  that,  at  that 
time  the  personal  property  was  val- 
ued at  more  than  five  times  as  much 
as  all  the  lands  in  the  county  sub- 
ject to  taxation.  But  this  is  account- 
ed for  by  the  fact  that  only  a  small 
portion  of  the  public  funds  had  then 
Ijeen  entered  and  conveyed  to  indi- 
•>irlual   purchasers. 

In  IS 5 6  the  personal  property 
was  valued,  for  the  purposes  of  tax- 
ation, at  $363,710,  and  the  lands 
and  lots  at  $626,004.  Total,  $989- 
714. 

A  large  portion  of  the  public 
Ian  's  had  now  been  entered,  and 
their     assessed      value     was      nearly 


double  that  of  the  personal  prop- 
erty. The  State  tax  charged 
therein,  including  the  school  tax, 
amounted  to  $7,059.53;  and  the 
County  tax  to  $3,687.81.  The  total 
for  all  purposes,   $10,747.34. 

In  1S60  the  personal  property  of 
the  County  was  assessed  at  $516- 
271,  and  the  real  estate  $794,977; 
total,  $1,311,248.  The  total  taxes 
charged  therein  were  $14,439.14. 
Immediately  after  the  close  of  the 
Civil  War  the  personal  property  of 
the  County  was  assessed  at  $537- 
923,  and  the  realty  at  $826,132; 
total,  $1,364,055.  The  State  taxes 
were    $10,541.25:     County,    $14,640- 


RESIDENCE   OP   CHARLES  SCHWERDT. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


13 


B.   S.   CRAINE, 
Mining  and  Civil  Engineer. 


I 


JAMES  A.  FELTS. 

Of   Felts   and   Baker.   Stationers   and 

Booksellers. 


M.  CANTOR. 
Clothier. 


.55;    total,    $24,581.80,    showing     an 
increase    during    the    four    years    of 
the   Civil   War   of 
Personal    Property    ..     ..$21,652.00 

Real   Estate 31,155.00 

Total    taxes,    increase..    13.834.67 
In   1880  the  taxable  property  was 
assessed  as  follows: 
Personal    Property     ..     .$483,290.00 

I,ands 806,128.00 

Town   Lots 87,928.00 

Railroad    track    35,543.00 

Rolling   stock 12,747.00 


Total $1,425,636.00 


Taxes  on   State 
State   School    .  . 

Military     .  . 


Total,  for  all  purposes  $5,031.61 
The  following  table  is  compiled 
from  the  Public  Records  for  IS 86. 
and  shows  the  total  assessed  value 
of  property  and  the  amount  of  taxa- 
tion thereon  in  each  Congressional 
District  for  that  year: 


8 

1 

$     21730$  68fil2,3 

90740  $  314S  94 

9 

1 

54022; 

124019' 

178041 

58G1  86 

10 

1 

252881 

T.^625! 

98913 

:«99  72 

S 

2 

31476 

84CfiO 

11.i5:M 

340!)  05 

a 

2 

336.W 

!:C236 

119886 

3723  1( 

10 

2 

3J5:;:i 

Ti-4111 

10)949 

3982  35 

8 

3 

40]ir 

^(111  ■;, 

vi"i-m 

4104  6< 

9 

3 

25.-.:; 

'.'tl'    't 

ll:0l'>9 

:i908  oi 

10 

X 

O'iM'if 

11^TS3 

.i067  8i 

8 

i 

34W: 

■■  1    i'"- 

ii'iiTI 

4377  55 

9 

4 

3S3:'i 

■  r :  w 

4329  If 

10 

4 

:j;9 

.3600  66 

M.S 

D 

69'.-:, 

1  "."J    ■.'- 

■i::::«l 

10371  6S 

J463i92  li:i'4fir, 

l.i?3h97 

59481  69 

Carbondale  and  Shawnee- 

town  Ry. 
Cairo  and  Vincennes  Ry. 


54248  1642  72 

8308   316  88 
$1696253  61440  81 


The  following  table  shows  the  as- 
sessed valuation,  rate  and  amount 
of    taxation   for   school    purposes     in 


every    school 
County   for   t 


istnct 
year 


in    W 
1903, 


illiamson 
carefully 


copied 


from 

.   Illi:: 


the    Public   Records    at 


52,993.44       I -s- 

1,995.63  ° 

142.54  5 


RESIDENCE    OF    HON.    GEO.    \V.    YOUNG. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


HON.  GEO.  W.  YOUNG. 

MEMORAND.'i. 

School  District  No.  32  is  in  Marion;  No.  A5  is 

In  Carterville;  No.  25  is  in  Herrin;  No.  13  is  m 

Johnson  City;  No.  37  is  in  Crainville,  No.  Si  is 

in  Creal  Springs. 

The  following  tabulated  state- 
ment shows  the  condition  of  the 
public  finances  for  the  year  1903. 
copied  from  the  public  records  at 
Marion: 

Valuation    by    the    State    Board. 

Realty $1,268,358 

Lots «5,G03 

Personal    Property    .  .     .  .       574,437 

Total $2;2TS,398 


MISS   EVA   YOUNG. 

Stenographer    and    Court    Reporter.   Youngest 

daughter  of  Hon.  Geo.  W.  Young. 


Western    U.    Tel. 

Co.. 

.  .$ 

569 

Coal    Belt   Ry.    Cc 

.    . 

5,000 

Corporations    .  . . 

5,569 

C  V  &  C    (Big  4) 

Ry. 

Co. 

7,000 

C.  P.  &  M.  Ry.  Co.    . 

77,562 

E.   I.    &   M 

64,197 

Chi.    &    Tex.     .  .  . 

36,427 

St.    L.    A.     &    T. 

H. 

(111. 

Cen.)    Ry    Co. 

156,928 

Total   Assesse  1 

Val 

.  .$12 

,631,650 

Cash    Valuation 

.  .$13,163,250 

The  Williamson  County 
=  Pre  s  s 

By  Geo.  W.  Young. 


RESIDENCE   OF  M.   CANTOR. 


THE  first  printing  office  ever  es- 
tablised  in  Williamson  Coun- 
ty was  in  the  year  1838,  was 
owned  by  W.  H.  Willeford,  and  was 
located  at  his  residence,  seven  miles 
southeast  of-  Marion.  This  was  be- 
fore Marion  was  laid  off  and  located 
as  a  county  seat.  In  fact.  It  was 
while  Williamson  and  Franklin 
Counties  were  embraced  in  the 
same  territory  and  called  Franklin 
County,  with  the  county  seat  at 
old  Frankfort,  twelve  miles  north 
of  Marion.  Mr.  Willeford  was  en- 
ergetic and  resourceful,  and  was  a 
good  printer  for  his  day  and  time; 
he  was  also  a  book  binder;  he 
bound  small  books  and  pamphlets, 
and  printed  about  all  of  the  blank 
forms  that  were  used  by  the  county 
offices  and  Justices  of  the  Peace. 
He  continued  in  this  line  of  print- 
ing and  book  binding  until  about 
the  year  1S5  0,  when  he  established 
a  by-monthly  journal,  called  the 
"Western  Family  Monitor."  The 
publication  of  this  paper,  in  con- 
nection with  the  job  printing  turned 
out  by  the  office,  attracted  the  at- 
tention of  some  business  men  In 
Marion,  who  bought  out  his  press 
and  stock  of  printing  material,  and 
moved  the  same  to  Marion,  and 
started  the  newspaper  called  the 
"Marion      Intelligencer,"      published 


SOU\"EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLXOIS. 


15 


.     VUlXGBLOOD. 
and    Insurance   Agent 


REV.   B.   F.   BAKER. 
Of    Felts  and   Baker.    Stationers 
Booksellers. 


D.    C.    SMITH. 
Real  Estate  Agent. 


by  I.   B.  .Tones,  editor  and  publisher. 

From  l.s.5o  to  lb..59  the  'Marion 
Intelligencer"  was  the  only  news- 
paper printed  and  published  in  the 
County.  There  were  many  changes 
in  editors,  publishers  and  mana- 
gers. It  is  said  that  at  one  time 
Robert  G.  IngersoU  was  manager 
and  editor-in-chief.  This  was,  per- 
haps, about  the  year  1S5S  and 
1859.  The  Winter  and  Spring  of 
1861,  Mr.  De  Bard  Rock  and  Mr. 
John  McGarvey  were  editors  and 
managers.  With  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Civil  War,  it  seems  that  the 
paper  suspended  publication  for  a 
while.  We  have  no  reliable  data 
as  to  the  extent  of  the  publication 
of  any  newspaper  during  the  time 
of  the  Civil  War,  although  the  of- 
fice and  material  situated  in  a  room 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Public 
Square  was  occasionally  used  to  do 
job  printing  and  to  keep  up  appear- 
ances. It  continued  to  bear  the 
name  of  the  "Marion  Intelligencer," 
and  was  the  only  newspaper  pub- 
lished in  the  County.  In  the  Spring 
of  186G,  the  name  of  the  paper 
was  changed  to  "The  Marion  Star," 
and  was  owned  by  a  company,  or 
an  association,  of  individuals,  and 
■was  published  as  the  Democratic  or- 
gan of  the  County. 

In  ISfifi,  the  first  Republican  pa- 
per ever  printed  or  published  in  the 
County  was  issued  by  an  associa- 
tion that  organized  for  the  purpose 
of  giving  the  Republicans  in  the 
County  a  newspaper  or  party  organ. 
The  original  contributors  to  this 
enterprise  were  Captain  George  W. 
Sisney,  Capt.  William  X.  Mitchell, 
Capt.  David  G.  Young,  S.  M.  Mitch- 
ell, William  M.  Hindman,  Jesse 
Bishop  and  George  W,  Young.  The 
name  given  it  was  "Our  Flag."  Ly- 
man E.  Knapp.  a  practical  printer. 
and   Jesse   Bishop     were     designated 


and  installed  as  editors  and  pub- 
lishers. In  September,  1S66,  the 
Democratic  organ,  "The  Marion 
Star,"  changed  owners,  and  changed 


its  name  to  that  of  "The  Old  Flag," 
with  Dr.  Samuel  H.  Bundy,  editor 
and  manager.  These  were  the  two 
papers     that      represented    the     two 


IXTElUOi;    UF    AI.    l.'A.\TUR'3    RESIDENCE. 
Mrs.   Schwerdt   and   Sisters. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


SOUA^ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON  COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


17 


MAYOR   C.   H.    DENISON. 


AIRS.    C.    H.    DENISON. 


RESIDENCE   OF  C.  H.   DENISON,   MAYOR  OP   .AIARION. 

West   Main   St.,    near   Vicksbuig,    Erected   in  1S99 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON  COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


ROBERT    C.    NOLL. 

Noll   and    Williams. 


Carpenter 


OSCAR  M.  WILLIAMS. 
Contractors. 


parties,  Republican  and  Democrat, 
during  and  through  the  campaign 
of    1S66. 

George  W.  Sisney,  Republican, 
was  elected  Sheriff  at  the  election  in 
November,  18G6.  and  the  Republi- 
cans having  carried  the  election  the 
year  previous,  they  had  control  of 
all  the  County  offices. 

"Our  Flag,"  the  Republican  or- 
gan,    under    one     management     and 


another,  continued  to  be  the  organ 
of  the  Republican  party  during  the 
years  1S67,  ISGS  and  1869.  Judge 
Jesse  Bishop  shaped  the  policy  and 
politics  of  the  paper.  Lyman  B. 
Knapp,  the  original  editor  and  pub- 
lisher, was  succeeded  by  Ed  Bishop, 
and  others,  among  whom  I  remem- 
ber was  John  I.  Hogg.  James  F. 
Connell  and  Samuel  O.  Hart. 
James  F.  Connell  became  editor  and 


RESIDENCE    OF  R.  C.  NOLL. 
Noll  and  Williams,  Architects  and  Builders. 


publisher  in  the  Spring  of  1870, 
and  remained  in  charge  something 
like  one  year,  when  the  office  again 
came  under  the  control  of  Judge 
Jesse  Bishop. 

In  1871,  the  material  of  "The 
Marion  Star"  was  disposed  of  to 
Mit  A.  Bates,  who  establishel  the 
paper  called  "The  People's  Friend," 
independent  Democrat.  About  the 
year  1874  "The  People's  Friend" 
was  sold  by  Mit  A.  Bates  to  an  old 
gentleman  by  the  name  of  W.  R. 
Brown  and  his  sons,  Richard  H. 
and  C.  D.,  who  changed  the  name 
to  that  of  "The  Williamson  County 
Democrat."  and  run  it  for  a  short 
time,  but  it  was  closed  out  liv  the 
Sheriff. 

A  stock  company  was  formed  in 
the  Spring  of  1S75.  which  organ- 
ized and  started  a  Democratic  pa- 
per called  "The  Egyptian  Press," 
Will  S.  Washburn  as  manager,  edi- 
tor and  publisher.  The  old  print- 
ing office  and  material  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  called  "Our  Flag," 
was  run  under  other  names  and 
other  managements  up  to  May, 
1S74,  when  James  P.  Copeland,  of 
Vienna,  came  to  Marion,  and  pro- 
cured a  lease,  or  rather  a  permit, 
to  revive  the  dormant  "Flag."  This 
he  proceeded  to  do  by  changing  the 
name  to  "The  Marion  Monitor." 
On  the  30th  day  of  May,  1S75,  the 
offices  of  "The  Egyptian  Press"  and 
"Marion  Monitor"  were  consumed 
bv    fire,    lioth    a    total    loss.  "The 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


19 


G.    L.    BRACK, 
Miner  and  Alderman  2nd  Ward. 


ROBT.    L.    KUDJEXS. 
Alc'erman   1st  Ward. 


JOSEPH    FOZARD, 
Alderman   4th  Ward. 


EgJ'ptian  Press"  was  immediately 
re-established  by  a  stock  company 
or  association  of  leading  Democrats 
of  the  County,  among  whom  we  call 
to  mind  Z.  Hudgens.  Jas.  M.  Wash- 
burn. Charles  H.  Denison.  William 
H.  Bun  y,  N.  E.  Xorris,  William  T. 
Davis,  Levi  Ferrell;  there  might 
have  been  others,  but  we  do  not 
call  them  to  mind  at  this  distant 
day. 

"The    Marion    Monitor"     was     re- 


established at  once  by  James  P. 
Copeland  and  George  W.  Young, 
who  were  assisted  by  liberal  con- 
tributions from  various  Republi- 
cans throughout  the  County.  James 
P.  Copeland  continued  to  be  editor 
and  publisher,  and  the  paper  con- 
tinued to  be,  as  it  had  been  from 
the  start,  soundly  Republican,  while 
"The  Egj-ptian  Press"  was  soundly 
Democratic.  In  1S77,  John  F. 
Lusk,  a  practical  printer  an  1  writer, 


bought  an  interest  in  "The  Moni- 
tor" from  George  W.  Young,  and 
remained  connected  with  the  paper 
something  like  two  years,  when  he 
sold  out  to  John  H.  Duncan  and  E. 
E.  Mitchell.  In  ISSC.  Thomas  J. 
Helton  started  a  paper  called  "The 
Marion  Independent,"  published  the 
same  about  one  year,  when  it  was 
bought  by  a  stock  company  com- 
posed of  E.  E.  Mitchell,  John  H. 
Duncan.    W.    C.    S.    Rhea    and    Elder 


(HOIK   OF  M.  E.  CHl'KCH   SOVXH. 

First    Row — Lloyd    Hunter,    Bass:    S.M.   ilay,   Bass:    Ed  E.   Gill,   Bass:   J.  W.      Asbury,     Tenor;      Earl        Cline, 

Tenor.        2nd   Row — Miss  Fanny  Davis.  Alto:    Miss  Fannie  Hunter,  Alto:    Alice   Samuels,   Soprano:    Mrs.   Dr. 

Evans,   Soprano:    Mrs.   Dr.  Baker,  Soprano:    Mrs.  Alice  Cline,  Soprano,    not  in  the  group. 

The  group  whose  half  tone  and  names  appear  above  has  had  for  its  organist  and  leader  for  the  past  22 
years  Mrs.  Dora  Evans,  wife  of  Dr.  Evans,  and  its  members  all  agree  in  ascribing  whatever  efficiency  they 
possess  to  her  skill  and  untiring  diligence  and  persistency  in  their  training.  To  a  reader  of  character,  the 
portraits  speak  for  themselves  and  the  artist  is  no  flatterer.  One  portrait  we  are  compelled  to  omit.  It  is 
tat  of  Mrs.  Alice  Cline,  who  with  her  husband  were  visiting  in  California  when  the  group  was  taken.  She 
is  a  talented  soprano  singer. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


OTIS   W.    WILLIAMS, 

Contractor    and    Builder.      Alderman 

3rd   Ward. 


ED  M.   STOLLAR, 
JIanager    of    Stollar    Herrin    Lumber 
Co.        Elected     member   of     Board 
of    Education    in    Spring    of    1904. 


HON.    RUFl'S    NEELY, 
County  Judge. 


William  H.  Bole.,,  a'.id  this  office 
was  consolidated  with  "The  Marion 
Monitor"  in  1886,  and  the  name 
changed  to  "The  Leader,"  with  Jas. 
P.  Copeland  editor  and  manager. 
This  new  company  continued  the 
publication  of  "The  Leader"  for 
abut  one  year,  when  it  became  the 
property  of  O.  J.  Page,  who,  after 
running  the  paper  about  a  year, 
sold  the  same  to  Arthur  Roberts 
and  Thomas  M.  Mitchell. 

About  1896,  W.  R.  Lee  started 
a  paper  in  Marion  called  "The 
Marion  News,"  which  was  Republi- 
can in  politics,  but  was  not  well 
supported.  It  was  mostly  of  the 
material  of  the  defunct  "Creal 
Springs   News."    (independent). 


MtsccUancous  Newspapers. 

During  the  period  from  18  6  6  to 
18  7  5,  there  were  a  great  many 
newspaper  enterprises  started  by 
aiyenturous  itinerant  printers,  but 
aS  a  rule,  they  did  not  exist  very 
long,  and  died  for  the  want  of  pa- 
tronage. 

I  call  to  mind  the  "Williamson 
County  Progress"  published  by 
John  A.  Wall.  It  was  a  Republi- 
can sheet,  but  did  not  last  more 
than  about  one  year.  Another, 
called  "The  Old  Flag."  It  was  es- 
tablished by  Lyman  B.  Knapp,  af- 
ter he  had  ceased  his  connection 
with  the  Republican  paper  called 
"Our   Flag,"    which,    as    I    have    said 


STOLLAR    HERRI  X    LUMBER     CO. 


before,  was  the  first  Republican 
paper  ever  established  and  pub- 
lished in  Williamson  County.  An- 
other called  "The  People's  Friend," 
established  by  Mit  A.  Bates,  ft  was 
an  independent  Democratic  paper, 
and  was  the  most  successfully  pub- 
lished paper  of  the  whole  number 
of  papers  of  this  class,  I  think.  It 
went  out  of  existence,  being  suc- 
ceeded by  the  Egyptian  Press  Print- 
ing Company  in  1874,  when  the 
plant  was  sol  1  to  an  old  eccentric 
publisher  by  the  name  of  H.  P. 
Brown,  and  his  two  sons,  Richard 
H.  and  C.  D.,  of  White  County. 
They  published,  for  a  while,  two  pa- 
pers, one  called  "The  Williamson 
County  Advocate,"  and  other  they 
called  "The  Williamson  County 
Democrat."  They  did  not  live  more 
than  a  year,  as  the  old  gentleman 
and  his  two  sons  were  rather  eccen- 
tric in  their  style,  and  their  publi- 
cations were  not  popular  with  any 
class    of    our   citizens. 

Some  time  about  the  year  '84, 
Thomas  J.  Helton  established  or 
bought  out  a  dead  office  in  Creal 
Springs,  called  "The  Creal  Springs 
Advocate,"  and  run  it  something 
like  a  year  on  a  losing  basis,  and 
then  moved  to  Marion,  and  printed 
"The  Marion  Independent"  for  one 
year,  and  sold  the  same  to  the 
stock  company  that  bought  out  the 
old  "Marion  IVIonitor"  Company,  and 
established    "The    Marion    Leader." 

About  the  year  1SS2,  John  H. 
Barton  established  "The  Carterville 
Advocate,"  and  sold  the  same  after- 
wards to  James  P.  and  B.  F.  Cope- 
lani,  who  run  the  same  something 
over  a  year,  and  sold  it  to  L.  E. 
Robertson,  who  still  continues  the 
publication  of  the  paper.  Will  L. 
Connell  established  a  paper  at  Creal 
Springs,   called     "The   Creal    Springs 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


21 


HON.   ROBT.   P.    HILL.  .1.   P.,   AND  WIFE. 


T.  .1.   ERWLN. 


Union."  It  was  poorly  supported, 
and  didn't  exist  but  a  few  months. 
when  it  was  accidentally  burned 
out.  There  was  a  paper  called  "The 
Farmers'  Advocate."  printed  by  H. 
G.  Blood  and  John  Palmer.  It  had 
Democratic     tendencies     in     politics. 


but  professed  to  be  published  in  the 
interest  of  the  farmers.  If  went 
out  of  existence  sometime  about 
1S75. 

About  the  year  1S70,  Green  Stew- 
art, George  Gulp,  Fergis  Farris  and 
T.    J.    Helton    launched    the    newspa- 


per enterprise,  called  "The  Marion 
Gazette."  It  professed  to  be  inde- 
pendent in  politics.  They  issued 
five  numbers  and  it  died  a  natural 
death.  "The  Williamson  County 
Republican"  was  started  by  Thomas 
Boren      in      Marion     in      1SS9,     but 


RESIDENCE   OF  A.  J.  BINKLEY. 

Northeast   Corner    North    Market    Street    and    Boulevard. 

Residence  of  A.  J.  Binkley,  late   of  the  firm  of  Burkhart  &  Binkley,    Dry  Goods.      Built   in  the  Spring  of 

1S98,  George  F.   Barber  &  Co.,  of  Knoxville,   Tenn.,   Architects.    Contractors   and   Builders.      The  grounds  are 

160  feet  front  by  2  85  feet  back  and   occupy  the  Northeast  corner  of  North     Market     Street     and     Boulevard. 


SOU\EXTR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


W.    T.    SPILLER,    Farmer 


ARTHUR    G.    DAVIS. 
Deputy    Circuit    Clerk. 


D.  A.   DAVIS. 


passed    out     of    existence    after    four 
weeks. 

In  June,  1904,  Tlie  Leader  Print- 
ing Office  was  incorporated  with 
a  capital  stock  of  eight  thousand 
dollars,  incorporators  being  Arthur 
Roberts,  T.  M.  Mitchell,  John  H. 
Duncan,  O.  H.  Burnett,  Oliver  J. 
Page,  Lloyd  C.  Campbell,  J.  F. 
Throgmorton,  John  M.  Dodd,  J.  B. 
Bundy,  F.  T.  Joyner,  Leonard  Culp, 
W.  T.  Felts.  John  H.  Duncan  was 
elected  President  of  the  Company; 
O.  H.  Burnett,  Vice  President,  and 
L.  C.  Campbell,  Secretary  and  Treas- 


urer. Arthur  Roberts  was  chosen  as 
editor  and   publisher. 

January  1,  1S95,  Samuel  K.  Ca- 
sey bought  a  half  interest  of  the 
"Egyptian  Press,"  and  the  same  was 
owned  by  Samuel  K.  Casey  and  Jas. 
M.  Washburn  until  19  01,  when  Wal- 
ter Williams  bought  Jas.  M.  Wash- 
tnirn's  half  interest.  Casey  and 
AVilliams  were  the  owners  until 
January,  190  3,  when  James  H.  Felts 
bought  Williams'  interest.  The 
plant  is  now  owned  by  Samuel  K. 
Casey  and  James  H.  Felts. 

In     February,      1904,     James     P. 


Copeland  and  others,  bought  "The 
Marion  News"  from  W.  R.  Lee,  and 
established  a  paper  called  "The 
Record,"  so  that  there  are  now 
three  weekly  papers  in  Marion,  viz: 
"The  Leader,"  "The  Egyptian 
Press"  and  "The  Record."  The  pa- 
pers printed  in  the  county  at  pres- 
ent are:  "Herrin  News,"  (Independ- 
ent), printed  at  Herrin;  "Carter- 
ville  Herald,"  (Independent),  at 
Carterville;  "Creal  Springs  News," 
(Independent),  at  Creal  Springs; 
"Johnson  City  Review,"  (Independ- 
ent), "Johnson  City  Progress"  (Re- 
publican) rt  Johnson  City;  "Egyp- 
tian Press,"  (Democratic) ;  "Marion 
Leader,"  Republican:  and  "The 
Record,"  Republican,  the  last  three 
at  Marion. 


RESIDENCE    OF   WILLIAM   J.   SPILLER. 

Location  of  the  former  home  of  the    late    Robert    G.     IngersoU,    and    his 
father  and   family. 


Daily  INfcvcapapcrs.' 

There  have  been  several  attempts 
to  publish  a  daily  paper  in  Marion, 
first  by  J.  P.  Copeland,  who  started 
"The  Daily  Leader"  in  1900;  next 
was  "The  Marion  Post,"  by  Ollie  R. 
Nation,  in  1901;  next  was  "The  Ma- 
rion News,"  by  W.  R.  Lee.  These 
publications  were  of  short  duration, 
and  in  March,  19o2,  Casey  and  Felts, 
having  bought  out  the  "Daily  Ma- 
rion News"  and  "The  Daily  Marion 
Post,"  began  the  publication  of  the 
"Daily  Marion  Post,"  and  it  has 
become  a  permanent  daily  publica- 
tion, with  a  circulation  of  eight  hun- 
dred. It  is  quite  a  newsy  sheet, 
neatly  printed,  and  well  edited  in 
the  main. 

On  the  whole,  the  press  of  Wil- 
liamson County  compares  favorably 
with  the  press  of  any  other  County 
in  Southern  Illinois. 


SOL'X'EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUXTY.  ILLINOIS. 


23 


^^^^^K^i^^^^^i' 

^^^H 

^^^^  r^ 


J.    C.    JACKSON. 
E.x-llavor  three  times. 


A.   L.  CLIXE, 
Merchant    and    President    of 
Pressed  Bricli   Co. 


MRS.   XAXNIE   HEXDRICKSOX, 
The    fii'st    girl    born    in    Marion. 


POLITICS  AND 
POLITICAL  PARTIES 


THE  early  settlers  of  this  County 
were  people  from  the  South- 
ern States,  principally  from  Tennes- 
see, Kentucky,  Virginia  and  the 
Carolinas,  and  it  was  but  natural 
that  these  people  should  bring  with 
them  and  cherish  their  political 
opinions,  which  prevailed  almost 
universally  over  the  Southern  por- 
tions of  this  County  since  the  foun- 
dation of  the  Government,  viz:    Pro- 


slavery  and  Democratic;  hence  the 
normal  conditions  of  the  people  of 
Williamson  County  prior  to  IS 60 
were    Democratic,    intensely    so. 

Going  back  as  far  as  1S52,  in  the 
Presidential  election,  the  Democrats 
polled  799  votes  for  Franklin  Pierce 
for  President,  General  Winfleld 
Scott,  nominee  of  the  Whigs,  re- 
ceived 344  votes  for  President.  Four 
years  later,  in  IS.IC.  .lames  Buchan- 
an, Democratic  nominee  for  Presi- 
dent, received  1419  votes:  John  C. 
Fremont,  the  first  nominee  for 
President  run  by  the  Republican 
party,  received  lu  votes:  Millard 
Fillmore,   the   candidate   run   by     the 


American    or    "Know    Xothing"    par- 
ty,  received    ISS   votes. 

Four  years  later,  in  IS  GO,  at  the 
time  when  the  Democrats  experi- 
enced the  bolt  of  the  Southern  wing 
of  the  party  at  the  Baltimore  Con- 
vention, in  which  the  Northern 
Democrats  generally  supported 
Stephen  A.  Douglas,  and  the  South- 
ern Democrats  John  C.  Breckenridge, 
and  the  Unionists  supported  John 
Bell,  of  Tennessee.  At  this  elec- 
tion, Stephen  A.  Douglas  received 
1S35  votes;  Abraham  Lincoln,  873 
votes;  John  C.  Breckenri'ge  re- 
ceived 40  votes  and  John  Bell  166 
votes.       Four    years    later,    in     1S64, 


WlLI.I.VilSOX   COrXTY    AGRICULTURAL   SOCIETY. 

1st   Row — James   A.    Goodall,   Harrison  White,  H.  V.  Boles,  O.  S.  Tippy,   John    Gray, 
man.  President;   Chas.  M.  Kern.  Wni.   H.  Bundy,  Secretary. 


2nd    Row — W.    J.    Aik 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 

1 


ROBERT   SPARKS, 
Contractor  and  Builder. 


FRANCIS   xMARION  SPARKS. 


JOHN  G.   SPARKS,   Deceased. 


RESIDENCE    OF    F.    M.    SPARKS. 

This  substantia!  and  elegant  home  of  Mr.  Sparks  and  his  family  stands  on  the  north  side  of  West  Main 
street  in  Marion,  between  Court  and  Vicksburg.  The  grounds  are  spacious  and  nicely  kept,  as  shown  in 
the  half-tone  and  the  land  lies  on  the  highest  point  in  the  street  giving  its  attractive  surroundings  a  prom- 
inence which  at  once  commands  the  admiration  of  the  passer-by.  It  was  largely  planned  by  Mrs.  Sparks 
and  her  husband,  and  erected  by  their  son,   Robert   Sparks,   the  Contractor  and  Builder,  in   1903. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


25 


PHILIP    RICK    AXD    WIFE. 
Proprietors   of   West     Side    Hotel. 


O.  .!.  PAGE. 

Editor    and    Pul5lisher   of     the     Daily 

Non-Partisan,    Marion. 


being  the  Presidential  election  that 
occurred  during  the  war,  McClellan 
received  1121  votes,  Lincoln  re- 
ceived 859  vtes.  This  brings  us  up 
to  the  close  of  the  War  in  IS 6. 5,  and 
it  shows  that  in  18.56  there  were 
only  ten  Republicans  in  the  County 
who  voted  lor  John  C.  Fremont,  the 
regular  nominee  for  President  of 
the  Republican  Party.  There  were 
ISS  "Know  Nothings,"  or  straight 
Americans,  and  the  Republican  vote 
only  increased  during  the  four  years 
to  173,  being  the  number  Lincoln 
received   for   President   in    1860. 

In  an  early  day  prior  to  1840, 
the  voting  was  done  viva  voce,  and 
after  the  adoption  of  the  system  of 
voting  by  ballot,  it  was  the  custom 
for  the  names  of  all  candidates  to 
be  printed  upon  one  slip  of  paper 
or  ballot,  and  the  voter,  with  a  pen- 
cil, scratched  off  all  the  names  ex- 
cept the  one  he  wished  to  vote  for. 
The  voting  in  Presidential  years 
was  done  by  preparing  the  ballot 
with  the  names  of  all  the  Presiden- 
tial electors  printed  thereon,  and 
this  was  followed  by  the  names  of 
all  the  candidates  for  State  Offices 
and  other  minor  offices,  and  this 
system  has  been  kept  up  to  the 
present  time,  as  it  is  the  system  pro- 
vided for  in  the  Constitution,  so 
that  in  the  Presidential  elections  of 
18.56,  1860  and  1S64,  the  names  of 
the  Republican  and  Democratic  elec- 
tors were  on  separate  tickets,  but 
usually  on  the  same  piece  of  paper, 
so  that  the  system  of  scratching,  as 
it  was  called,  remained  in  vogue  un- 
til 1891,  when  the  present  Austra- 
lian ballot  system  was  adopted  in 
this  State,  hence  for  the  last  thir- 
teen years,  the  tickets  have  been 
printed  at  public  expense,  with  cards 
containing  voluminous  instructions 
as  to  how  the  voter  could  vote  his 
sentiments  when  retired  to  the  se- 
crecy of  the  voting  booth. 

But    to    go    back    to    1860,    there 


was  no  Republican  Organization  in 
the  County.  The  173  votes  cast  for 
Abraham  Lincoln  for  President  were 
east  by  his  supporters,  who  pro- 
cured their  own  tickets  and  wrote 
them  out  themselves.  In  1864,  the 
regular  Republican  ticket  was  print- 
ed by  the  State  Central  Committee, 
containing  the  names  of  the  various 
State  Officers,  but  the  candidates 
for  County  offices  were  simply  put 
on  the  County  part  of  the  ticket, 
without  the  formality  of  any  Repub- 
lican caucus  or  Convention,  so  that 
while  there  were  some  Republican 
or  Union  men  voted  for  prior  to 
1865,  they  were  on  what  was  called 
mixed  tickets,  upon  which  all  the 
names  of  all  the  candidates  were 
placed,  and   the  voters  scratched   the 


names  of  all  the  candidates,  except 
the  name  of  the  canlldate  of  his 
choice. 

There  was  never  any  notable  con- 
test where  Party  lines  were  drawn, 
except  perhaps  in  the  contest  for 
Sheriff  in  186  4,  when  Captain  Fran- 
cis M.  Norman  and  Captain  Robert 
M.  Allen  were  candidates  for  Sheriff. 
Captain  Robert  M.  Allen  was  re- 
garded as  a  Democrat,  and  Captain 
Norman  was  an  avowed  Union  man, 
as  they  were  called  then,  but  really 
a  Republican.  While  their  names 
were  printed  on  the  same  ticket, 
it  was  understool  that  the  Re- 
publicans or  Union  men  would 
scratch  tne  name  of  Robert  M.  Al- 
len and  give  their  vote  to  Captain 
Norman,  and  so  the   Democrats  like- 


WEST    SIDE    HOTEL. 
Philip    Rick,  Proprietor. 


26 


SOU\^ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON'   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


.   S.    VICK, 
Pioneer. 


MRS.    S.    S.    VICK, 
Pioneer, 


MRS.    MARY    I>.    MAXIER. 
Pioneer. 


wise  scratch  the  name  of  Captain 
Norman  and  give  their  vote  to  Cap- 
tain   Allen. 

The  heavy  vote  of  S5  9  cast  for 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  1SG4  was  prin- 
cipally given  by  soldiers,  who  were 
in  the  army,  and  who  were  fur- 
loughed  home  to  vote  in  the  election. 
Of  course,  this  vote  was  largely  sup- 
plemented by  the  friends  and  rela- 
tives of  the  soldiers  in  the  Union 
Army.  But  the  alignment  of  politi- 
cal parties  and  the  selection  of  can- 
didates to  be  voted  for  by  the  dif- 
ferent political  parties  did  not  as- 
sume definite  shape  until  September 
30,  1865.  The  War  closed  in  May 
of  that  year,  and  from  that  on  un- 
til September,  the  soldiers  who  had 
enlisted     in    the    Union    Army     were 


being  mustered  out ;  and  Jesse 
Bishop,  who  hal  been  a  politician  in 
Pennsylvania,  Minnesota,  and  also 
had  taken  some  interest  in  politics 
in  McLean  County  in  this  State, 
came  to  this  County  in  1S64,  and 
was  the  guiding  star  in  directing 
and  conducting  the  political  cam- 
paign of  1SC4,  and  when  the  sol- 
diers returned  from  the  War,  they 
were  influenced,  in  a  great  measure, 
by  such  men  as  John  A.  Logan,  who 
then  resided  at  Carbondale,  and 
Major  A.  J.  Kuykendall,  at  Vienna, 
and  General  Green  B.  Raum,  who 
lived  at  Harrisburg,  and  Captain 
Isaac  Clements,  of  Carbondale,  sup- 
plemented with  such  positive  char- 
acters as  Captain  Francis  M.  Nor- 
man,     Geo.     W.     Sisney.      David     G. 


RESIDENCE   OF  JO    VICK. 


Young,  William  N.  Mitchell,  Geo. 
W.  Young  and  numerous  others, 
that  had  been  conspicuous  in  the 
army  and  during  the  V.'ar  aligned 
themselves  with  the  Republican  par- 
ty; and  the  inside  history  sliows 
that  on  the  30th  day  of  September, 
1S65,  there  were  thirteen  of  the  ex- 
soldiers  and  Union  men  met  in  the 
rear  room  of  the  drug  store  of  Dr. 
Isaac  M.  Lewis,  on  the  south  side  of 
the  Public  Square,  in  the  old  frame 
building,  corresponding  with  the 
store  room  owned  by  Dr.  Casey  at 
this  time,  and  they  then  and  there 
proceeded  to  nominate  and  make  up 
the  first  Republican  ticket  that  was 
ever  placed  before  the  people  of  Wil- 
liamson County  at  the  general  elec- 
tion. The  names  of  those  individu- 
als were  as  follows:  Dr.  Isaac  M. 
Lewis,  Dr.  Geo.  L.  Owen,  Samuel 
W.  Russell,  Dr.  S.  M.  Mitchell,  Cap- 
tain Francis  M.  Norman,  Geo.  A. 
Willeford,  James  M.  Edwards,  Cap- 
tain Geo.  W.  Sisney,  Robert  P.  Er- 
win,  A.  J.  Lewis,  Addison  Reese, 
Jesse  Bishop  and  Geo.  W.  Young. 
This  caucus  proceeded  to  nominate 
candidates  for  the  different  County 
offices,  to  be  voted  for  at  the  coming 
November  election.  For  County 
Judge,  Robert  L.  Pulley;  Associate 
Justices,  Jonathan  Impson  and  Ad- 
dison Reese;  for  County  Clerk,  Cap- 
tain William  N.  Mitchell;  for  Super- 
intendent of  Schools,  Captain  David 
G.  Young;  for  County  Treasurer, 
Joseph  W.  Hartwell,  of  the  31st  Illi- 
nois. On  the  21st  of  October  follow- 
ing, Robert  L.  Pulley  died,  and  at 
the  suggestion  of  Jesse  Bishop,  who 
was  then  regarded  as  the  head  of 
the  party,  Isaac  M.  Lewis  was  placed 
on  the  ticket  to  fill  the  vacancy 
caused  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Pulley. 
There  being  no  printing  office  un- 
der  the    control   of   the    Republicans 


SOU\E\IR  OF  WILLIAMSON'   COUXTY,   ILLINOIS. 


BOARD    OF    EDl'CATIOX. 

Reading   from   left    to   right    the    Board  of  Education  is  as  follows:    Top    row — Ed    Spilled,    E.    E.    Deni- 
son,   W.  G.  Cochran,  Dr.  A.  il.   Edwards.      2nd   row — J.   M.   Burkhart,   Geo.  H.  Goodall  and  W.  J.  Aikman. 

With  the  steady  advance  in  improvements  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  education,  a  change  from  the 
old  system  of  control  under  the  old  law  was  inevitable,  and  it  came  in  1898.  The  Board  of  Education 
was  organized  at  that  time,  and  its  first  members  were:  W.  H.  Bundy,  its  first  president,  W.  W.  Clemmens, 
Judge  W.  W.  Duncan,  Dr.  A.  M.  Edwards,  J.  .M  Cline,  W.  J.  Aikman  and  .J.  H.  Burnett.  They  were  di- 
vided into  one,  two  and  three  year  members,  and  the  President  and  two  members  are  elected  every  year. 
The   two   new   members  of   the   present   Board   are   E.   M.   Stotlar,   President,   and  .J.   M.   Do'ld. 


at  that  time.  Captain  David  G. 
Young  and  Joseph  \V.  Hartwell  rode 
through  the  country  on  horseback 
to  Desoto  to  have  the  tickets  print- 
ed to  be  voted  at  the  coming  elec- 
ion.  The  election  came  off  on  the 
7th  day  of  November,  1S65.  The 
whole  Republican  ticket  was  elected 
by  good  majorities,  being  the  first 
Republican  ticket  and  the  first  Re- 
publicans that  were  ever' elected  to 
any    office    in    Williamson   County. 

The  next  year,  1SG6,  was  the  first 
general  State  and  Congressional 
election  that  came  off  after  the 
close  of  the  war.  Geo.  W.  Sisney 
was  candidate  for  Sheriff  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket,  and  Samuel  S.  Vick 
was  candidate  on  the  Democratic 
ticket.  The  lines  were  drawn,  and 
the  tickets  were  prepared  on  sepa- 
rate pieces  of  paper  by  both  parties: 
Captain  Sisney  and  the  other  Re- 
publicans were  elected  by  a  major- 
ity  less  than   one   hundred. 

In  1867,  T.  P.  White  was  elected 
Assessor  and  Treasurer  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket.  In  1868,  being  the 
first  Presidential  election  aftfi  the 
close  of  the  War,  General  Grant, 
Republican  candidate  for  President 
carried  the  County  by  68  majority, 
electing  Hardin  Goodall  Sheriff  and 
all  the  rest  of  the  Republicans  on 
the   ticket. 

In  1869,  the  Democracy  lined  up 
in  good  shape  for  the  contest. 
Schisms  had  gotten  into  the  Repub- 
lican ranks,  and  the  result  was  that 
the  Democrats  carried  the  County, 
electing  all  of  their  officers  by  ma- 
jorities ranging  from  30  to  120.  In 
1870,  the  County  went  Republican, 
electing   A.   N.   Owens  for  Sheriff  by 


majority  less  than  100.  In  1871, 
the  County  went  Democratic  by  a 
small  majority.  In  187  2,  being  the 
second     Presidential      election     after 


the  close  of  the  War,  party  spirit 
ran  high.  The  Democrats  and  the 
liberal  Republicans,  who  joined 
forces,  nominated  Horace  Greeley  as 


RESIDENCE    OF  J.   M.   BURKHART, 
Southwest    corner   North    Market  Street   and  Boulevard. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


M.    A.    FELTS, 
Reporter  Egyptian  Press. 


MARTIN  V.  FELTS, 
Farmer. 


PROF.    C.    C.    DSXXEY, 
Marion  High  School. 


their  candidate  for  President,  and 
the  regular  Republicans  renominat- 
ing General  Grant  for  President. 
The  campaign  was  bitter  and  excit- 
ing, and  every  effort  was  put  forth 
by  the  respective  parties  to  carry  the 
election.  The  result  was,  that  while 
General  Grant  carried  the  County 
by  12  majority,  the  Democrats  elect- 
ed their  County  ticket  by  majori- 
ties ranging  from  35  to  200.  In 
1873,  the  Republicans  were  success- 
ful by  a  small  majority.  In  1874 
was  the  great  land  slide  in  favor  of 
the  Democracy,  being  the  first  that 
had  come  over  the  country  since  the 
close  of  the  War.  The  Democrats 
carried  almost  everything,  not  only 
in  Williamson  County,  but  in  the 
country  at  large.  N.  E.  Norris  was 
elected  Sheriff  by  a  majority  of 
something  over  200.  In  1S75.  the 
Republicans  carried  the  County  by 
"a  small  majority.  In  1S76,  being 
the  third  presidential  campaign  af- 
ter the  close  of  the  War,  and  the  old 


parties  being  lined  up  on  the  issues 
growing  out  of  the  results  of  the 
War,  the  Republicans  nominated 
Rutheford  B.  Hayes  for  their  candi- 
date for  President;  and  the  Demo- 
crats nominated  Samuel  J.  Tilden 
for  their  candidate  for  President. 
The  Republicans  won,  electing  all 
their  County  officers.  M.  S.  Strike 
was  electel  Circuit  Clerk  by  12  ma- 
jority. W.  J.  Caplinger  was  elected 
Sheriff  by  120  majority.  Hayes  car- 
ried  the  County  by  2  8   majorty. 

In  1S77.  the  Republicans  elected 
their  ticket  by  majorities  ranging 
from  39  to  113.  In  1878,  was  a 
Congressional  election,  in  which 
John  R.  Thomas,  Republican,  was 
pitted  against  William  J.  Allen.  It 
was  a  war  of  giants,  and  very  excit- 
ing and  much  interest  manifested. 
Captain  Thomas  carried  the  County 
over  William  J.  Allen  by  143  ma- 
jority. James  H.  Duncan,  Demo- 
crat, defeated  W.  J.  Caplinger,  Re- 
publican,  by   7  8   majority. 


CIKIOI.    lUll.DIXC. 


In  1S79,  the  Republicans  elected 
their  candidate  by  173  majority.  In 
1880,  the  Republicans  elected  their 
ticket,  except  the  States'  Attorney; 
W.  W.  Clemens  defeated  John  W. 
Peebles  by  94  majority.  In  1881, 
the  Republicans  elected  their  County 
Commissioner  by  155  majority.  In 
18  82,  being  a  general  election  for 
State  Treasurer,  State  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools,  State  Senator,  Mem- 
ber of  Congress,  Member  of  Legisla- 
ture, and  County  Officers,  the  Demo- 
crats elected  the  Coroner,  County 
Treasurer,  County  Clerk,  Sheriff, 
County  Judge  and  County  Commis- 
sioner. The  Republican  candidate 
for  Congress  had  5G  majority;  Re- 
publican candidate  for  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  had  5  8  majority;  the 
Democrats  elected  everything  else. 
In  1883,  Reuben  Borton,  Democrat, 
defeated  John  Scoby,  Republican, 
for  County  Commissioner,  by  5  8  ma- 
jority. In  1884,  being  a  Presiden- 
ital  election,  the  Republicans  nomi- 
nated James  G.  Blaine  and  the  Dem- 
ocrats nominated  Grover  Cleveland 
for  President.  Blaine  carried  the 
County  by  272  majority,  and  all  the 
Republicans  in  the  County  were 
elected  by  majorities  ranging  from 
135  to  272.  In  1885,  the  Republi- 
cans elected  their  County  Commis- 
sioner by  a  small  majority. 

In  1886  was  the  most  hotly  con- 
tested campaign  that  had  taken 
place  between  the  two  parties  since 
1868.  In  this  campaign,  the  Dem- 
ocracy rallied  the  old  guard  as  if 
for  a  final  struggle.  They  put  forth 
their  strongest  and  best  men,  and 
this  campaign  was  for  years  after 
referred  to  as  the  "Cat  and  Dog 
Fight."  It  was  pre-eminently  the 
boodle  campaign  of  the  County.  In 
no  campaign  prior  thereto  was  there 
anything  like  the  amount   of   money 


SOU\-ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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R.    O.    CLARIDA, 
Superintendent    of   Schools. 

spent  by  the  candiaates  among  the 
voters  as  there  was  in  this  campaign. 
Both  parties  were  equally  guilty  of 
the  abominable  and  corrupt  practice, 
and  the  campaign  of  'SG  is  referred 
to  at  the  present  time  as  being  the 
initial  campaign  for  the  corrupt  use 
of  money  by  candidates  in  elections. 
The  Republicans  were  successful, 
and  this  campaign  broke  the  back- 
bone of  the  Democracy.  They  have 
never  rallied  or  been  able  to  put 
forth  a  successful  campaign  since. 
The  fact  is,  that  the  Democracy 
have  never  nominated  a  ticket  com- 
posed of  men  who  were  willing  to 
spend  their  money  in  'procuring 
votes  to  that  degree  of  .  liberality 
that  the  Republicans  have.  The 
use  of  money  in  elections  has  be- 
come so  corrupt  and  notorious  that 
two  years  ago,  twenty-four  men, 
mostly  Republicans,  were  indicted 
for  the  infamous  crime  of  bribery 
in  elections.  There  have  been  sev- 
eral convictions,  and  some  of  the 
■cases  are   still   pending. 


The  Supreme  Court  of  the  State 
has  upheld  the  constitutionality  of 
the  bribery  in  election  law  .  In  this 
connection,  it  might  be  proper  to 
add  that  any  elector  who  shall  so- 
licit, request,  demand  or  receive,  di- 
rectly or  indirectly,  any  money,  in- 
toxicating liquor,  or  other  thing  of 
value,  or  the  promise  thereof,  either 
to  influence  his  vote,  or  to  be  used, 
or  under  the  pretense  of  being  used 
to  procure  the  vote  of  any  other  per- 
son or  persons,  prior  to  or  on  the 
day  of  an  election  for  or  against  any 
candidate  for  otfice,  or  for  or  against 
any  measure  or  question  to  be  voted 
upon  at  such  election,  shall  be  guilty 
of  the  infamous  crime  of  bribery  in 
elections. 

The  Statute  also  further  provides 
that  solicitation  by  any  person  of 
a  loan  of  money,  or  the  purchase  of 
anything  of  value,  or  of  liquor  by 
the  drink  or  treat,  to  influence  or  ef- 
fect his  vote,  or  any  other  subter- 
fuge, shall  be  deemed  a  violation  of 
the  Statute.  The  man  who  pays  the 
money  is  not  culpable,  but  by  the 
law  is  made  a  witness  against  the 
man  who  receives  the  money.  The 
penalty  is  disfranchisement  for  not 
less  than  five  years,  and  imprison- 
ment In  the  County  jail  for  not  less 
than  three  months,  and  to  stand  im- 
prisoned until  the  costs  of  the  pros- 
ecution are  paid. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  all  good  citi- 
zens will  unite  in  the  strict  enforce- 
ment of  this  law:  and  in  this  con- 
nection, it  might  be  proper  to  add 
that  if  the  law  could  be  amended  in 
such  a  way  that  the  voter  who  re- 
ceives the  money  could  be  made  a 
witness  against  the  man  who  pays 
the  money,  it  would  decidedly  ele- 
vate the  morals  of  the  politics  of  our 
country. 

At  the  Presidential  election  of 
ISSS,  the  Republicans  carried  the 
County  by  majorities  ranging  from 
ITS  to  32S.  At  the  next  Presiden- 
tial election  in  1S92,  the  Republican 
majority  was  151,  the  lowest,  and 
?,Sfi,    the    highest.      The    next    Presi- 


NEW  SCHOOL  BLTILDING. 


PROF.   TURNER. 
Teacher. 


dential  election,  in  1S9(;,  the  Repub- 
licans carried  the  County  by  majori- 
ties ranging  from  433  to  510.  At 
the  election  for  County  Commis- 
sioner in  1S99,  the  Democrats  broke 
the  record,  and  for  the  first  time 
since  1883,  they  elected  E.  H.  Bul- 
linger  County  Commissioner  by  ma- 
jority of  73  votes.  At  the  Presiden- 
tial election  of  1900,  the  Republi- 
cans elected  their  whole  ticket  by 
majorities  ranging  from  854  to 
101  S.  This  brings  us  up  to  the  last 
Presidential  election,  and  by  way  of 
explanation,  it  would  be  proper  to 
say  that  the  majorities  spoken  of 
really  represent  pluralities,  as  there 
has  always  been  (especially  -n  Pres- 
idential years')  from  three  to  fiv<? 
tickets  in  the  field,  but  the  votes  cast 
for  any  other  ticket  besides  the  reg- 
ular nominees  on  the  Republican 
ticket  and  Democratic  ticket,  are 
comparatively  insignificant,  and  do 
not  represent  an  important  factor  in 
the  politics  of  the  County. 

A  very  noticeable  feature  con- 
nected with  the  history  of  the  poli- 
tics of  Williamson  County  is  the 
strict  adherence  and  intense  loyalty 
of  the  partisans  of  the  two  dominant 
parties,  the  Republican  and  the 
Democratic.  This  grows  out  of  the 
fact  that  in  the  early  formative 
period  of  the  Republican  Party  in 
the  County,  there  was  a  breaking 
up  of  old  party  lines  and  political 
doctrines  growing  out  of  the  Civil 
War.  It  was  brought  about  by  the 
alignment  of  the  War  Democrats 
on  the  side  of  the  Union,  or  for  the 
T^nion  cause,  and  against  secession 
and  rebellion:  this  will  be  the  more 
noticeable  when  we  observe  that  at 
tiie  election  of  1S60.  Abraham  Lin- 
coln received  only  173  votes  out  of 
a  total  cast  of  2214.  being  40  for 
Breckenridge.      Bell     166.      Lincoln 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


PROP    J.    W.    ASBURY,  W.    A.    COOK,  .JAMES    A.    GRAIN, 

Superintendent   of:  City   Schools.  Principal   of   Marion    High   School.  .\rchitect    and    Civil-Engineer. 


HIGH    SCHOOL   CLASS    OF    1904. 


Top   row,     from     left     to     right   -Martha    Hunter,    Florence    Oberdorfer,  Celeste    Benson,    Val.,    Estelle  Bur- 
nett,   Sal.,    Effle   Jeter,    Rosanna   Whittington,    Pres.         Second    row — Velce    Warder,    Nellie    Rich,    Lois  Ben- 
son,  Fay   Goodwin,   Mabel   Dunaway,    Sec,    Hortense    Campbell.      Third   row — Harry    Roach,    Lawrence  San- 
ders,   Claude    Phillips,    Vice-Pres.,    Oscar    Dodd,    Albert    Reidell,   Treas. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


31 


W.    F.    WRIGHT, 
Alderman    Fourth   Ward. 


D.   T.    HARTWELL, 
City  Attorney. 


J.   A.  SINKS, 
Court   Reporter. 


1S35.  The  Southern  wing  of  the 
Democratic  party  caused  eleven  of 
the  Southern  States  to  secede,  and 
passed  ordinances  of  secession. 
This  brought  such  men  and  promi- 
nent Democrats  as  John  A.  Logan, 
John  H.  White,  Geo.  W.  Goddard, 
William  A.  Looney,  Francis  M. 
Norman,  and  many  others,  who 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  Union, 
and  thereby  lined  themselves  as  ad- 
vocates of  the  policy  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  the  result  was  that 
Williamson  County  sent  1400  sol- 
diers into  the  Union  army  to  fight. 
The  stand  taken  by  the  Xorthern 
Democrats  as  to  the  War  policy  of 
the  Southern  Democrats  caused 
political  lines  to  be  established  in 
such  a  way  that,  while  the  Demo- 
cratic party  in  the  North,  in  the 
main,  were  loyal  to  the  Govern- 
uient.     and     was    opposed    to    seces- 


sion and  bitterly  opposed  to  rebel- 
lion and  insurrection,  yet  the  lead- 
ers of  the  Democratic-  party  were 
opposed  to  the  War  policy  that  was 
pursued  and  advocated  by  the  Re- 
publicans; and  in  this  way,  the 
two  parties  were  pitted  against 
each  other  in  all  of  the  political 
contests  that  were  waged  during 
the  War  and  during  the  period  of 
reconstruction  after  the  close  of 
the  War,  which  extended  from 
1S65    to    1884. 

About  the  year  1886,  the  rich 
coal  beds  that  underlie  the  North 
and  West  portions  of  the  County 
began  to  attract  the  attention  of 
Eastern  capitalists.  Investments 
began  to  be  made  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  coal  interest.  A  new 
tide  of  immigration  set  in,  bringing 
a  new  generation,  new  blood,  new 
associations,    new    ileas,    new    theo- 


RESIDENCE  OF  W.   F.   WRIGHT  .    ALDERMAN    FOURTH    AVARD. 


ries,  new  politics.  This,  together 
with  the  fact  tluit  the  sons  of  vete- 
rans had  grown  up  to  be  voters,  a 
large  per  cent,  of  this  class  of  our 
people,  of  course,  voted  the  way 
their  fathers  had  voted  before 
them,  and  the  patriotic  and  senti- 
mental politics  became  merged 
with  speculative  politics,  and  the 
two  forces  combined  for  the  devel- 
opment of  the  coal  industry,  and 
the  American  idea  of  protection 
and  sound  money  and  internal  im- 
provements, all  had  their  effect  to 
strengthen  and  solidify  the  Repub- 
lican vote,  so  that  now  the  labor 
classes,  who  are  at  work  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  mines  of  the 
County,  go  along  with  the  capital- 
ists, who  are  making  their  invest- 
ment, and  they,  in  turn,  stand  in 
with  the  Republican  law  makers 
that  enact  and  execute  laws  for  the 
protection  of  the  capitalists  and  the 
industries  which  make  the  combi- 
nation a  very  formidable  one  for 
the  utilizing  of  the  natural  re- 
sources of  the  county,  and  the  solid- 
ifying and  holding  together  of  the 
Republican  vote,  re-enforced  by  the 
laboring  vote  that  follows  in  the 
wake. 

With  the  establishment  of  the 
Gold  Standard  and  the  new  era  of 
prosperity  and  development  of  our 
coal  industries,  and  the  liberal  use 
of  money  in  elections  since  1S96, 
The  Republican  party  of  the  County 
has  been,  firmly  intrenched  in  all 
the  public  offices  and  in  the  public 
favor  of  a  large  majority  of  the 
people    of    the    County. 


Cbc  Socialistic  Party. 

The  astounding  gains  of  this 
party  in  the  United  States  within 
a  very  brief  period  as  shown  by  the 
last      Presidential      vote      bring     the 


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SOUX'ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLIXOLS. 


ED  GILL,  Architect  and 
MARION'S   STATE   AND   SAVINGS   BANK. 


sober  citizen  to  tlie  serious  contem- 
plation of  its  possible,  even  prob- 
able, triumph  in  the  near  future, 
and  to  a  consideration  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  country  in  that  event. 
As  a  faithful  historian  of  passing 
events  in  this  county,  our  chosen 
field  for  recor  \  it  is  impossible  to 
pass  this  disturbing  element  by  in 
silence;  it  has  suddenly  leaped  into 
a  prominence  which  perforce  com- 
mands the  closest  scrutiny.  What- 
ever may  be  thought  of  the  system, 
it  is  manifest  that  it  cannot  longer 
be  ignored.  The  official  count 
makes  the  total  vote  of  the  country 
in  1900  to  be  96,361  and  in  1904 
408,230.  The  Illinois  vote  for  the 
same  periods  was  9,6S7  and  96,22.5. 
The  vote  for  Williamson  County 
was  11  for  1900  and  363  for  1904. 
These  figures,  it  is  recognized,  do 
not  represent  the  sum  total  of  all 
believers  in  Socialism  in  the  United 


ROi'.KUT    H.    l^RIDE, 
Contractor     and     Builder     of 
firm  of  Pride  and  Gill. 


States,  probably  not  even  the  half, 
but  they  are  startling  enough  to 
set  people  to  thinking. 

Prior  to  the  last  election  this 
party  had  no  organization  in  this 
County.  The  eleven  votes  repre- 
sented but  a  small  portion  of  the 
real  believers  in  the  system,  as 
shown  by  the  great  increase  in  the 
next  four  years.  And  if  the  same 
rate  of  increase  is  kept  up,  this 
county  will  cast  nearly  12,000  votes 
for  Socialism  in  1908.  It  is  need- 
less to  say  that  the  same  rate  of 
increase  throughout  the  country 
elects  the  next  president.  Truly 
the  issue  is  upon  us.  Nothing  can 
be   more   important   therefore  at  the 


COUNTY    .]A\\.    \T    MARION,    ILL. 


J.   V.   GRIDER, 

Ex-City    Marshall. 


present  time  than  to  fully  under- 
stand the  principles  and  purposes 
of  the  p.irty.  Nothing  is  more  com- 
mon than  to  revile  that  of  which 
one  is  ignorant,  and  ignorance  of 
the  new  untried  is  inevitable.  The 
words  of  Jesus  have  hal  a  constant 
and  world-wide  application  and  ful- 
fillment, "They  hated  me  without  a 
cause."  But  every  candid  and 
thoughtful  mind  will  give  every  im- 
portant question  a  fair  and  thor- 
ough investigation  before  deciding 
pro   or  con. 

We  have  a  duty  to  do,  therefore, 
on  behalf  of  the  readers  of  the 
Souvenir — to  make  as  fair  and  full 
a  statement  of  the  issue  before  us 
as  the  limits  of  our  space  will  per- 
mit. 

What   then   do  they   propose? 

Do  they  intend,  as  is  commonly 
alleged,  to  forcibly  take  possession 
of  all  the  property  in  the  United 
States  and  divide  it  up  pro  rata? 
Do  they  propose  thereafter  to  dump 
the  proceeds  of  the  earnings  of  the 
wliole  people  into  a  common  fund 
and  let  every  fellow  help  himself? 
I  am  safe  in  saying  that  no  intelli- 
gent Socialist  ever  entertained  so 
palpable  an  absurity.  It  is  a  com- 
mon error  to  class  Socialists  wfth 
Anarchists,  the  enemies  of  all  gov- 
ernment, the  assassins  of  rulers,  the 
arch  plotters  against  the  peace,  or- 
der and  happiness  of  mankind.  But 
a  very  slight  inquiry  will  expose 
the  unjust  accusation  to  the  con- 
tempt it  deservs.  That  their  pur- 
poses are  radical  an1  revolutionary 
to  the  extreme  limit,  they  them- 
selves freely  avow.  They  propose 
no  less  than  the  complete  abolition 
of  private  property,  in  the  means  of 
production,  land,  machinery  and  all 
tools  used  for  the  production  of 
wealth.  They  offer  as  a  proper  and 
just    substitute    the    joint-ownership 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


33 


BEX.IAillX    B.    GRIGGS. 


MRS.    SARAH    MARGARET   GRIGGS 
Deceased   Wife  of   Benj   B.   Griggs. 


SYDNEY    C.    GRIGGS, 
Of    Griggs    Bros.,    Bricliniakers. 


by  the  whole  people  of  these  things, 
the   means  of  subsistence. 

Socialists  reason  somewhat  after 
this  sort.  Every  person  born  into 
the  world  is  by  that  fact  entitled  to 
a  place  to  live  without  getting  the 
consent  of  another  to  do  so,  that  is 
to  land  enough  for  a  home.  But  if 
he  is  the  exclusive  owner  of  that  bit 
of  land,  that  is,  has  an  exclusive 
title  in  fee  simple,  he  can  exclude 
all  others  therefrom.  Therefore, 
private  property  in  land  should  be 
abolished,  and  none  permitted  the 
control  of  more  than  he  can  use, 
and  control  should  cease  with  use. 
Land  should  no  more  be  bought 
and  sold  than  air  and  water,  but  be 
jointly  held  by  the  nation  at  large 
for  the  use  and  benefit  of  all,  only 
the  right  to  use  as  a  perpetual  pos- 
session, and  when  vacated,  should 
revert   again   to  the  public. 


In  like  manner,  if  a  man  has  the 
right  to  live  he  has  the  right  to  the 
means  of  subsistence.  But  as  all 
property  is  the  product  of  labor, 
and  labor  only,  no  man  has  the 
right  to  anything  he  does  not  in 
some  way  produce.  If  his  sub- 
sistence is  to  be  drawn  from  the 
sea,  he  must  have  a  net,  but  his 
right  to  live  does  not  give  him  the 
right  to  compel  another,  who  has 
an  equal  right,  to  furnish  him  with 
a  net.  He  must  produce  a  net  him- 
self or  give  to  him  who  does  so 
the  full  equivalent  of  the  labor 
required.  "If  he  will  not  work, 
neither  shall  he  eat."  But  the  price 
he  is  compellel  to  pay  for  tlie 
means  of  subsistence  is  the  amount 
of  labor  required,  to  furnish  that 
means  and  that  only,  as  every  one 
has  a  right,  a  natural  and  inattain- 
able    right,    to    the    full    product     of 


RESIDENCE    OF    BEN,I.   B.   GRIGGS. 
East   College   St.      Erected   in   1900. 


his  toil.  The  creator  has  a  right 
to  whatever  he  creates.  Therefore, 
he  who  produces  nothing  has  a  right 
to  nothing.  Now,  if  our  civiliza- 
tion has  reached  that  condition  of 
development  wherein  men  can  only 
secure  subsistence  by  co-operating 
with  others  and  make  use  of  tools 
which  require  many  hands  to  op- 
erate, then  those  tools  should  justly 
be  the  property  of  all  and  free  to 
all,  as  much,  and  for  the  same  rea- 
son that  the  land  and  water  and  the 
air  is  free.  Private  ownership  of 
these  gives  the  few  power  to  compel 
all  others  to  toil  for  and  enrich  the 
owners,  and  is  robbery.  It  is  this 
power  that  has  enable!  John  D. 
Rockefeller  to  accumulate  a  prop- 
erty so  vast  that  his  annual  income 
is  $100,000,000,  and  is  swiftly  in- 
creasing. What  is  known  as  profits 
is  but  the  surplus  arising  from  the 
sale  of  the  products  of  labor  for 
more  than  it  costs  to  prodtice  them. 
By  the  private  ownership  of  all  the 
oil-producing  territory  of  this  coun- 
try John  D.  Rockefeller  has  ac- 
quired the  power  to  set  any  price 
he  pleases  on  the  product  and  prac- 
tically to  enslave  a  nation.  Further, 
the  right  to  buy  and  own  every 
species  of  property,  including  land, 
has  compelled  Rockefeller  and 
others  to  seek  other  fields  for  in- 
vestment until  a  handful  of  such 
men  will,  in  a  very  short  time,  own 
the   earth   and   all    it   contains. 

Their  money  has  been  accumu- 
lated by  confiscating  a  part  of  the 
products  of  every  man's  toil,  no 
wrong  will  therefore  be  done  if  the 
nation  calls  a  halt,  and  putting  a 
stop  to  the  further  exploitation  of 
labor,  turn  over  to  the  public  all 
the  machinery  of  production  for  the 
benefit  of  all.  This  is  what  the 
Socialist  is  trying  to  bring  about, 
not  by  bullets  but  by  ballots,  and 
it    is    hoped    by   many   and    expected 


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SOUX'ENIR   OF   Wll.l.lA.MSOX   (T)UNTY,   ILLIXOIS. 


BENJAMIN    EURA    GRIGGS, 
Of    Griggs    Bros.,    Brickmakers. 


JOHN   0.    LEE, 
Farmer. 


SAMUEL    B.    BAKER, 
West  Frankfort,   III. 


by  not   a  few   that   he   will  presently 
succeed. 

To  give  a  full  and  authoritative 
expression  of  the  plans  and  policy 
of  this  new  power  in  American  poli- 
tics, we  append  the  party  platform 
for  preservation  and  reference: 
I. 

The  Socialist  party,  in  convention 
assembled,  makes  its  appeal  to  the 
American  people  as  the  defender 
and  preserver  of  the  idea  of  liberty 
and  self-government,  in  which  the 
nation  was  born;  as  the  only  politi- 
cal movement  standing  for  the  pro- 
gram and  principles  by  which  the 
liberty  of  the  individual  may  be- 
come a  fact;  as  the  only  political  or- 
ganization   that    is    democratic,     and 


that   has     for   its   purpose   the     dem- 
ocratizing  of   the   whole  of   society. 

To  this  idea  of  liberty  the  Re- 
publican and  Democratic  parties  are 
equally  false.  They  alike  struggle 
for  power  to  maintain  and  profit  by 
an  industrial  system  which  can  be 
preserved  only  by  the  complete 
overthrow  of  such  liberties  as  we 
already  have,  and  by  the  still  fur- 
ther enslavement  and  degradation 
of  labor. 

Our  American  institutions  came 
into  the  world  in  the  name  of  free- 
dom. They  have  been  seized  upon 
by  the  capitalist  class  as  the  means 
of  rooting  out  the  idea  of  freedom 
from  among  the  people.  Our  state 
and    national    legislatures    have    be- 


come the  mere  agencies  of  great 
propertied  interests.  These  inter- 
ests control  the  appointments  and 
decisions  of  the  judges  of  our 
courts.  They  have  come  into  what 
is  practically  a  private  ownership  of 
all  the  functions  and  forces  of  gov- 
ernment. They  are  using  these  to 
betray  and  conquer  foreign  and 
weaker  peoples,  in  order  to  estab- 
lish new  markets  for  the  surplus 
goods  which  the  people  make,  but 
are  too  poor  to  buy.  They  are 
gradually  so  invading  and  restrict- 
ing the  right  of  suffrage  as  to  take 
away  unawares  the  right  of  the 
worker  to  a  vote  or  voice  in  public 
affairs.  By  enacting  new  and  mis- 
interpreting old   laws,   they  are   pre- 


MARION   PRESSED  BRICK  WORKS, 
Griggs    Brothers,    Proprietors.      East  College   St..   near  the   Fair  Grounds. 


SOU\"EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLINOIS, 


35 


REV,    W.M,    T,    .MATH  IS. 
Pastor  of  the   M,   E.   Church   South, 


.MRS.    SALLY    S,    BINKLEY, 
Pioneer,  aged   So, 


paring  to  attactc  the  liberty  of  the 
individual  even  to  speak  or  think 
for  himself,  or  for  the  common 
good. 

By   controlling   all    the   sources   of 
social    revenue,    the    possessing   class 


voice  of  protest  against  the  passing 
of  liberty  and  the  coming  of 
tyranny.  It  completely  controls  the 
university  and  public  school,  the 
pulpit  and  the  press,  and  the  arts 
and   literatures.        By  making  these 


is  able  to  silence  what  might  be  the      economically    dependent    upon    itself, 


M.   E.   CHURCH   SOUTH. 


it  has  brought  all  the  forms  of  pub- 
lic teaching  into  servile  submission 
to  its  own  interests. 

Our  political  institutions  are  also 
all  being  used  as  the  destroyers  of 
that  individual  property  upon  which 
all  liberty  and  opportunity  depend. 
The  promise  of  economic  independ- 
ence to  each  man  was  one  of  the 
faiths  upon  which  our  institutions 
were  founded.  But,  under  the 
guise  of  defending  private  property, 
capitalism  is  using  our  political  in- 
stitutions to  make  it  impossible  tor 
the  vast  majority  of  human  beings 
ever  to  become  possessors  of  pri- 
vate property  in  the  means  of  life. 

Capitalism  is  the  enemy  and  de- 
stroyer of  essential  private  prop- 
erty. Its  development  is  through 
the  legalized  confiscation  of  all  that 
the  labor  of  the  working  class  pro- 
duces, above  its  subsistence-wage. 
The  private  ownership  of  the  means 
of  employment  grounds  society  in 
an  economic  slavery  which  renders 
intellectual  and  political  tyranny 
inevitable. 

Socialism  comes  so  to  organize 
industry  and  society  that  every  in- 
dividual shall  be  secure  in  that  pri- 
vate property  in  the  means  of  life 
upon  which  his  liberty  of  being, 
thought  and  action  depends.  It 
comes  to  rescue  the  people  from  the 
fast  increasing  and  successful  as- 
sault of  capitalism  upon  the  liberty 
of  the  individual. 
II, 

As  an  American  socialist  party, 
we  pled.ge  our  fidelity  to  the  prin- 
ciples of  international  socialism,  as 
embodied  in  the  united  thought  and 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


FKAXK     THKOGMAKTIN. 
Deputy   Sheriff. 


action  of  tlie  socialists  of  all  na- 
tions. In  the  industrial  develop- 
ment already  accomplished,  the  in- 
terests of  the  world's  workers  are 
separated     by    no     national     bound- 


aries. The  condition  of  the  most 
exploited  and  oppressei  workers,  in 
the  most  remote  places  of  the  earth, 
inevitably  tends  to  drag  down  all 
I  lie  workers  of  the  world  to  the 
same  level.  The  tendency  of  the 
competitive  wage  system  is  to  make 
labor's  lowest  condition  the  meas- 
ure of  rule  of  its  universal  condi- 
tion. Industry  and  finance  are  no 
longer  national  but  international, 
in  both  organization  and  results. 
The  chief  significance  of  national 
boundaries,  and  of  the  so-called 
patriotisms  which  the  ruling  class 
of  each  nation  is  seeking  to  revive, 
is  the  power  which  these  give  to 
capitalism  to  keep  the  workers  of 
the  worH  from  uniting,  and  to 
throw  them  against  each  other  in 
the  struggles  of  contending  capital- 
ist interests  for  the  control  of  the 
yet  unexplored  markets  of  the 
world,  or  the  remaining  sources  of 
profit. 

The  socialist  movement,  there- 
fore, is  a  world-movement.  It 
knows  of  no  conflicts  of  interests 
between  the  workers  of  one  nation 
and  the  workers  of  another.  It 
stands  for  the  freedom  of  the 
workers  of  all  nations:  and,  in  so 
standing,  it  makes  for  the  full  free- 
dom  of   all   humanity. 


GERMAN    EVANGELICAL   ZION    CHCRCH. 
Rev.   C.   E.   Miche,    Pastor. 


REV.   C.   E.   MICHE, 

Pastor    of    the    German    Evangelical 

Zion's    Church. 


III. 
The  socialist  movement  owes  its 
birth  and  growth  to  that  economic 
development  or  world-process  which 
is  rapidly  separating  a  working  or 
producing  class  from  a  possessing 
or  capitalist  class.  The  class  that 
produces  nothing  possesses  labor's 
fruits,  and  the  opportunities  and 
enjoyments  these  fruits  afford, 
while  the  class  that  does  the  world's 
real  work  has  increasing  economic 
uncertainty,  and  physical  and  intel- 
lectual  misery,   for   its   portion. 

The  fact  that  these  two  classes 
have  not  yet  become  fully  conscious 
of  their  distinction  from  each  other, 
the  fact  that  the  lines  of  division 
and  interest  may  not  yet  be  clearly 
drawn,  does  not  change  the  fact  of 
the   class   conflict. 

This  class  struggle  is  due  to  the 
private  ownership  of  the  means  of 
employment,  or  the  tools  of  pro- 
duction. Wherever  and  whenever 
man  owned  his  own  land  and  tools, 
and  by  them  produced  only  the 
things  which  he  used,  economic  in- 
dependence was  possible.  But  pro- 
duction, or  the  making  of  goods, 
has  long  ceased  to  be  individual. 
The  labor  of  scores,  or  even  thous- 
ands, enters  into  almost  every  arti- 
cle produced.  Production  is  now 
social  or  collective.  Practically 
everything  is  made  or  done  by  many 
men — sometimes  separated  by  seas 
or  continents — working  together 
for  the  same  end.  But  this  co-op- 
eration in  production  is  not  for  the 
direct  use  of  the  things  made  by  the 
workers  who  make  them,  but  for 
the  profit  of  the  owners  of  the  tools 
and  means  of  production:  and  to 
this  is  due  the  present  division  of 
society  into  two  classes;  and  from 
it  have   sprung  all   the  miseries,   in- 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAAISON   COUXTV,   ILLINOIS. 


37 


S.   HARRIS, 
Sheriff. 


E.    E.    DCXXISOX. 
Attoruey-at-Law. 


JUDGE   n.   A.   MARKER. 


harmonies  and  contradictions  of  our 
civilization. 

Between  these  two  classes  there 
can  he  no  possible  compromise  or 
identity  of  interests,  any  more  than 
there  can  be  peace  In  the  midst  of 
war,  or  light  in  the  midst  of  dark- 
ness. A  society  based  upon  this 
class  division  carries  in  itself  the 
seeds  of   its   own   destruction.      Such 


a  society  is  founded  in  fundamental 
injustice.  There  can  l)e  no  possible 
leasts  for  social  peace,  for  individual 
freedom,  for  mental  and  moral  har- 
mony, except  in  the  conscious  and 
complete  triumph  of  the  worlving 
class  as  the  only  class  that  has  the 
right  or  power  to  be. 
IV. 
The    socialist    program    is    not    a 


theory  imposed  upon  society  for  its 
acceptance  or  rejection.  It  is  but 
the  interpretation  of  what  is,  sooner 
or  later,  inevitable.  Capitalism  is 
already  struggling  to  its  destruc- 
tion. It  is  no  longer  competent  to 
organize  or  administer  the  work  of 
the  world,  or  even  to  preserve  it- 
self. The  captains  of  industry  are 
appalled    at    their    own    inability     to 


Home  of  the  oldest  living  couple  in  thu    ^w,,..,..  ,    ..,,.    .ad   Mrs.    Isaac   Newton   Atwood,    .S:>   and    87   years   old. 
The   log   house   was   liuilt    in    1JS4.5    and   still   does  service  as  kitchen  and  dining  room. 


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Snr\'l'.\IR   (  »I'   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


AN   IMPROMPTU    GROUP    AT    MARION,    ILL. 

1st    Row Mrs    Dr.    Thomson,    Mrs.   H.  N.   Boles,   Mrs.   Shannon  Holland,    Mrs.    Mat  tie    Bortree,    Wetzel 

Bortree,   Mrs.    Minnie   Hall,   Mrs.   Geo.    Goodall,    Mrs.    Gus   Brown,    Mrs.    Dr.   Theo.   Hudson,   Mrs.   R.   D.   Hol- 
land.     2nd   Row — Mrs.    Charles   Gent,   Mrs.   Eph.   E.  Snyder,  Mrs.   W.   H.    Warder,  Mrs.   L.   D.   Hartwell.      3rd 

Row Mrs.   A.   F.   White,   Mrs.   Wiley   Cochran,   rMs.   W.   J.   Aikman,   Mrs.     W.     P.     Moore.         Babies— Miss 

Sarah   Augusta    Snyder,    Mary   Louisa  Gent,  Charlie  Hay,  Miss  Harriet  Goodall. 


control  or  direct  the  rapidly  social- 
izing forces  of  industry.  The  so- 
called  trust  is  but  a  sign  and  form 
of  the  developing  socialism  of  the 
world's  work.  The  universal  in- 
crease of  the  uncertainty  of  employ- 
ment, the  universal  capitalist  de- 
termination to  break  down  the 
unity  of  labor  in  the  trades  unions, 
the  widespread  apprehensions  of 
impending  change,  reveal  that  the 
institutions  of  capitalist  society  are 
passing  under  the  power  of  inher- 
ing forces  that  will  soon  destroy 
them. 

Into  the  midst  of  the  strain  and 
crises  of  civilization,  the  socialist 
movement  comes  as  the  only  con- 
servative force.  If  the  world  is  to 
be  saved  from  chaos,  from  univer- 
sal disorder  and  misery,  it  must  be 
by  the  union  of  the  workers  of  all 
nations  in  the  socialist  movement. 
The.  socialist  party  comes  with  the 
only  proposition  or  program  for  in- 
telligently and  deliberately  organ- 
izing the  nation  for  the  common 
good  of  all  its  citizens.  It  is  the 
first  time  that  the  mind  of  man  has 


ever   been    directed    toward    the   con- 
scious   organization    of    society. 

Socialism  meant,  that  all  those 
things  upon  whirh  the  people  in 
common  depend  shall  by  the  people 
in  common  be  owned  and  adminis- 
tered. It  means  that  the  tools  of 
employment  shall  belong  to  their 
creators  and  users:  that  all  pro- 
duction shall  be  for  the  direct  use 
of  the  producers;  that  the  making 
of  goods  for  profit  shall  come  to 
an  end;  that  we  shall  all  be  work- 
ers together;  and  that  all  oppor- 
tunities shall  be  open  and  equal  to 
all   men. 

V. 

To  the  end  that  the  workers  may 
seize  every  possible  advantage  that 
may  strengthen  them  to  gain  com- 
plete control  of  the  powers  of  gov- 
ernment, and  thereby  the  sooner 
establish  the  co-operative  common- 
wealth, the  Socialist  Party  pledges 
itself  to  watch  and  work,  in  both 
the  economic  and  the  political 
struggle,  for  each  successive  im- 
mediate interest  of  the  working 
class;    for    shortened    days    of    labor 


and  increase  of  wages;  for  the  in- 
surance of  the  workers  against  ac- 
cident, sickness  and  lack  of  em- 
ployment; for  pensions  for  aged 
and  exhausted  workers;  for  the 
graduated  ta.xation  of  incomes,  in- 
heritances, franchises  and  land  val- 
ues, the  proceeds  to  be  applied  to 
the  public  employment  and  improve- 
ment of  the  conditions  of  the  work- 
ers; for  the  complete  education  of 
children,  and  their  freedom  from 
the  workshop;  for  the  prevention  of 
the  use  of  the  military  against  la- 
bor in  the  settlement  of  strikes;  for 
the  free  administration  of  justice; 
for  popular  government,  including 
initiative,  referendum,  proportional 
representation,  equal  suffrage  of 
men  and  women,  municipal  home 
rule,  and  the  recall  of  officers  by 
their  constituents;  and  for  every 
gain  or  advantage  for  the  workers 
that  may  be  wrested  from  the  cap- 
italist system,  and  that  may  relieve 
the  suffering  and  strengthen  the 
hands  of  labor.  We  lay  upon  every 
man  elected  to  any  executive  or 
legislative    office    the    first    duty     of 


sorxEXik  oi-  V.  ii_LiA^;se;x  couxtv.  illixois 


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ELDER    A.    M.    KIRKLAXD, 

Pastor     of     thp     Primitive     Baptist 

Church. 


striving  to  procure  whatever  is  for 
the  workers'  most  immediate  inter- 
est, and  for  whatever  will  lessen  the 
economic  and  political  powers  of 
the  capitalist,  and  increase  the  lilie 
powers   of   the   worker. 

But,  in  so  doing,  we  are  using 
these  remedial  measures  as  means 
to  the  one  great  end  of  the  co-op- 
erative commonwealth.  Such  meas- 
ures of  relief  as  we  may  be  able  to 
force  from  capitalism  are  but  a 
preparation  of  the  workers  to  seize 
the  whole  powers  of  government, 
in  order  that  they  may  thereby  lay 
hold   of   the   whole   system   of   indus- 


G.    \V.    CHESLEY    McCOY, 
California    Pioneer. 


try,   and   thus  come   into  their   right- 
ful  inheritance. 

To  this  end  we  pledge  ourselves, 
as  the  party  of  the  working  class, 
to  use  all  political  power  as  fast  as 
it  shall  be  entrusted  to  us  by  our 
fellow-workers,  both  for  their  im- 
mediate interests  and  for  their  ul- 
timate and  complete  emancipation. 
To  this  end  we  appeal  to  all  the 
workers  of  America,  and  to  all  who 
will  lend  their  lives  to  the  service 
of  the  workers  in  their  struggle  to 
gain  their  own,  and  to  all  who  will 
nobly  and  disinterestelly  give  their 
ilnys    and    energies    unto    the    work- 


LEOX  SENTER, 
With  his  Billy  Goat. 
Leon  Senter,  .vho  appears  beside 
his  goat  "Billie"  in  the  half-tone 
illustration,  is  the  son  of  G.  F. 
Senter,  of  Marion,  and  is  now  at- 
tending school  in  the  third  grade, 
under  Byrd  Spiller  at  Marion.  He 
was  born  August  9,  1892.  His  fa- 
vorite, handsome  "Billie"  was  ob- 
tained last  year  at  Paducah,  at  a 
cost  of  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents. 
He  is  three  years  old  and  well- 
trained  and  kind  and  tractable. 
Leon  has  a  wagon  in  which  he  and 
his  sister  Christina  ride  after 
"Billie"  all  over  town.  "Billie" 
never  needs  tying,  but  will  stand 
quietly  anywhere  on  the  street  until 
his   master   returns. 


PRIMITIVE    BAPTIST   CHURCH. 
A.    M.    Kirk  land.   Pastor. 


ers'  cause,  to  cast  in  their  lot  and 
faith  with  the  socialist  party.  Our 
appeal  for  the  trust  and  suffrages 
of  our  fellow-workers  is  at  once  an 
appeal  for  their  common  good  and 
freedom,  and  for  the  freedom  and 
blossoming  of  our  common  human- 
ity. In  pledging  ourselves,  and 
those  we  represent,  to  be  faithful 
to  the  appeal  which  we  make,  we 
believe  that  we  are  but  preparing 
the  soil  of  that  economic  freedom 
from  which  will  spring  the  freedom 
of  the  whole   man. 

The    Interiiatiuuality    of    Socialism. 

The  Socialist  Party  is  the  only 
political  organization  which  repre- 
sents the  interests  of  the  working 
class  in  all  countries,  as  against  the 
interests  of  the  capitalist  class  now 
ruling  under  every  form  of  gov- 
ernment, whether  Republican,  as  in 
the  United  States,  or  monarchical 
as  in  England  and  Germany,  or 
despotic    as    in    Russia. 

The  following  report  of  the  So- 
cialist vote  wherever  the  workers 
have  an  opportunity  to  vote,  ex- 
presses   the    growing    power    of     the 


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SorX'F.XIR   ()!•    WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLINOIS. 


HON.    JOHN    H.    DUNCAN, 
States    Prison    Commissioner. 


MRS.    JOHN    H.    DUNCAN. 


movement  having  for  its  mission 
the  emancipation  of  Labor  from  the 
world-wide  rule  of  capitalism;  Aus- 
tria, 600,000;  Belgium,  463,000; 
Denmark,  55,479;  Prance,  880.000; 
Great     Britian,      100,000;      Holland, 


39,00ii;  Italy,  170,841;  Norway, 
24,779;  Servia,  50,000;  Spain, 
2  5,000;  Switzerland,  3  6,000,  and 
in  the  United  States  in  1902,  225,- 
903,  making  a  total  of  5,678,002 
votes. 


PUBLIC   SCHOOLS 

OF  WILLIAMSON  CO. 

By  Prof.  R.  O.  Clarida,  Sup't..  and 
Prof.  Jas.  W.  Turner. 


RE3IDE.NCE    OF   HON.    JOHN    H.    DUNCAN. 
West    Main    Street,    Northwest   Corner  of   Vicksburg. 


AT  and  prior  to  the  year,  1839, 
when  Williamson  County  was 
formed  out  of  a  part  of  Franklin 
County,  the  number  of  schools  were 
few,  and  these  continued  but  a  few 
months  in  the  fall  and  early  win- 
ter. Settlements,  where  there  were 
any,  were  far  apart,  and  only  the 
most  thickly  populated  of  these 
were  able  to  support  a  "subscrip- 
tion" school  for  a  tew  months  in  the 
year.  Like  all  frontier  schools  of 
that  date,  the  school  curriculum 
was  the  three  "R's."  As  the  county 
became  more  thickly  populated  and 
its  agricultural  advantages  became 
more  developed,  a  few  Eastern, 
(Ohio,  Pennsylvania  and  New  York) 
teachers  came  in,  on  their  way 
"westward,"  and  gave  the  schools  a 
new  start  by  teaching  other  branch- 
es in  addition  to  reading,  writing 
and  arithmetic.  The  advantages  for 
the  few  subscription  schools  at  this 
time  were  the  most  meager,  in  fact, 
nothing  but  the  four  walls  of  a  log 
house  and  a  clapboard  roof;  no 
stove — much  less  steam  heat — -no 
blackboard;  no  apparatus;  a  big, 
wide-open  fire  place  and  stick  and 
clay  chimney.  The  distance  trav- 
eled by  some  of  the  pupils  was  three 
and  four  miles. 

Strange  to  think  that  some  of  our 
most   distinguished   men   and   women. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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MARION    C.    CAMPBELL, 
Deceased. 


MRS.    M.    C.    CAMPBELL, 
Of   Greenville,    Miss. 


CAPT.   J.    M.    CUXNINGHAM, 
Deceased. 


had  only  these  school  advantages,  if 
such  could   be  called  advantages. 

The  first  official  record  pertaining 
to  the  public  schools  of  Williamson 
County  dates  from  the  year  A.  D  , 
1S40,  when  Mr.  William  T.  Tanner, 
School  Commissioner  of  the  new 
county  of  Williamson,  receipts  Sion 
H.  Mitchell,  then  School  Commis- 
sioner of  Franklin  County,  for  Wil- 
liamson County's  share  of  the  school 
funds.  The  records  in  the  County 
Superintendent's  office  at  present 
show  that  Mr.  Tanner  served  as 
School  Commissioner  for  .one  year. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Henry  W.  Per- 
ry, who  also  served  one  year.  J.  H. 
Mulkey  served  from  18-12  to  1848; 
N.  B.  Calvert  from  ISIS  to  1S55; 
J.  H.  Swindell  from  1,S.55  to  1S59; 
John  N.  Calvert  from   1859  to  1860; 


W.  H.  Scobey  from  LSCO  to  iS62; 
Wm.  R.  Scurlock  from  1862  to 
1866;  David  G.  Young  from  1866  to 
1869.  It  might  be  well  to  give  here 
a  part  of  Mr.  Young's  annual  report 
to  the  State  Superintendent,  in  or- 
der to  show  Mr.  Young  s  rather 
modern  ilea  of  school  work,  as  well 
as  to  show  that  yome  teachers  ex- 
isted then  as  now.     He  says: 

"The  matter  of  examination  of 
teachers  has  generally  been  re- 
garded as  a  matter  of  little  im- 
portance, and  the  effect  of  such  a 
course  has  been  bad,  indeed.  I  can 
not  be  as  strict  in  the  examination 
of  teachers  as  I  would  like  to  be, 
for  the  number  of  applicants  is  not 
large,  and  if  I  should  not  give  cer- 
tificates to  some,  who  do  not  really 
deserve   them,   many   districts   would 


HESIDE.M'K    OF    L.    P.    YANDELL. 


be  without  schools.  We  have  few 
teachers  who  make  teaching  a  pro- 
fession; numbers  have  been  in  the 
habit  of  teaching,  or  rather  tortur- 
ing school,  not  because  they  like 
teaching,  but  to  secure  the  two  hun- 
dred  dollars." 

The  files  of  the  office  of  the 
County  Superintendent  show  that 
the  first  written  report  was  made  to 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Schools 
by  William  R.  Scurlock.  in  1863. 
The  contrast  is  so  striking  compared 
with  the  reports  made  in  the  last 
few  years,  that  it  deserves  to  be 
given  herein.  Some  statistics  of 
the  report  follow: 

"Number  of  teachers,  39;  number 
first  grade,  14;  number  second 
grade,  15;  number  third  grade,  10. 
No  expenditures  for  school  furni- 
ture and  apparatus;  amount  re- 
ported as  expended  for  repairs, 
$1.67;  amount  expended  for  teach- 
ing $7,387.94;  for  all  school  pur- 
poses for  the  year  (1863)  $9,194.59. 
At  this  time  Marion  School  District 
had  five  months'  school;  other 
schools  of  the  county  ranged  in  term 
from    one   to   five    months." 

David  G.  Young,  above  mentioned 
and  now  called  "County  School 
Superintendent"  instead  of  "County 
School  Commissioner,"  was  suc- 
ceeded by  A.  N.  Lodge,  who  served 
from  1869  to  1877.  The  County 
had  by  this  time  became  greatly  de- 
veloped in  the  way  of  agriculture 
and  population  compared  to  former 
years,  and  thereby  demanded  better 
teaching  and  better  qualified  teach- 
ers. To  help  meet  this  demand. 
Superintendent  Lodge  reports  in 
1870,  the  first  attempt  at  a  Teach- 
ers' Institute.  Quoting  from  the  re- 
port of  that  year  to  the  State  Super- 
intendent, it  says: 

"Institute  continued  for  five  days, 
beginning    Dec.    27th.      Number    en- 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS 


F.   M.   WESTBROOK. 


MRS.   P.   M.   WESTBROOK. 


rolled,  55;  paid  instructors,  $4.00; 
total  expenses  of  Institute,  $12.00. 
Instructors  were:  E.  H.  Andrews, 
Dr.  F.  M.  Stratton,  Dr.  J.  D.  F.  Jen- 
nings. J.  H.  Patrick.  Theodore 
James,  Clark  Braden,  Dr.  S.  H. 
Bundy   and   J.   M.   Clemenston. 

At  the  expiration  of  A.  M.  Lodge's 
last  term,  1ST7,  Dr.  J.  M.  Fowler 
was  elected  and  served  till  1SS2. 
It  was  not  until  the  expiration  of 
Dr.  Fowler's  term  that  the  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  was  al- 
lowed by  law  any  stated  or  specified 
salary      for     services,     their     emolu- 


ments being  two  per  cent  for  money 
distributed  and  loaned,  and  such 
pay  as  the  County  Commissioners 
saw  fit  to  allow  them  for  actual  of- 
ficial services  rendered. 

During  Dr.  Fowler's  term  special 
efforts  were  made  to  awaken  a  bet- 
ter professional  interest  among  the 
teachers,  and  this  by  the  Teachers' 
Institute.  For  some  several  years 
past  it  seems  what  efforts  had  been 
made  were  lost  as  regarded  the  in- 
terest of  the  institute.  His  report 
to  the  State  Department  in  1S78 
«ays  in  part: 


RESIDENCE  OF  F.  M.  'WESTBROOK. 


"Held  ten  days'  Institute.  A 
grand  success.  I  am  persuaded  it 
has  accomplished  much  good.  No 
provisions  were  made  by  the  County 
Commissioners  to  help  pay  expenses 
of  the  Institute,  and  we  had  to 
charge  a  tuition  fee  sufiicient  to  de- 
fray expenses.  D.  G.  Ray,  In- 
strucor." 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  County 
Superintendent  and  the  school  inter- 
ests generally  were  completely 
handicapped  by  the  absence  of  any 
provision  to  pay  Institute  In- 
structors and  bear  other  expenses 
necessary  to  make  the  Institute  the 
best  success.  It  was  probably  these 
efforts  of  school  officers  which  later 
caused  a  law  to  be  passed  by  our 
State  Legislature,  making  provi- 
sions for  the  adequate  maintenance 
of  an  annual  Institute. 

John  H.  Duncan  succeeded  Mr. 
Fowler  as  County  Superintenient. 
and  served  until  1890.  During  all 
this  time,  since  the  organization  of 
the  county,  the  old  log  school  houses 
had  been  gradually  giving  place  to 
frame  buildings,  with  some  preten- 
sions to  comfort,  and  slight  tenden- 
cies to  convenience.  The  close  of 
Mr.  Duncan's  term,  1S90,  left  only 
one  log  school  house — an  old  moss 
covered  land-mark  of  the  early 
school  days  of  Williamson  County. 
This  district,  in  1893,  replaced  the 
log  house  with  a  frame  building,  to- 
gether with  good  board  furniture 
and  some  apparatus.  The  county, 
in  the  meantime,  had  been  making 
progress  in  other  ways.  The  Teach- 
ers' Institute  had  become  an  estab- 
lished   fact,    provisions    having   been 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUXTY,  ILLINOIS. 


43 


REV.  W.  \V.  WEEDON. 


MRS.  M.  \V.  ROBERTSON'. 


M.  W.  ROBERTSON. 


made  by  the  Legislature  for  pay- 
ment of  Instructors  and  other  ne- 
cessary expenses,  by  requiring  the 
applicants  for  certificates  to  pay  a 
fee  of  $1.  During  the  term  of  Mr. 
Duncan  as  County  Superintendent, 
the  first  step  looking  to  the  grading 
of  the  County,  or  common  schools, 
was  made  by  suggesting  the  use  of 
the  Manual  and  Guide,  a  rudi- 
mentary Course  of  Study.  Under 
this  law  the   first   Township  or  Cen- 


tral and  Final  Examinations  were 
held.  Also  during  the  last  term  of 
Mr.  Duncan,  the  first  volumes  of  a 
Teachers'  County  Library  were 
bought,  the  County  Superintendent 
being  made  Librarian. 

Mr.  Duncan's  successor  was  T.  J. 
Youngblood,  who  served  until  189S. 
By  this  time  the  County  contained 
several  good  high  schools,  which  in- 
cluded Marion,  Carterville,  Creal 
Springs,  and  Crab  Orchard  Academy 


CHRISTL\X   CHURCPL 
W.  W.   Weelon.    Pastor. 


and  the  Creal  Springs  College  and 
Conservatory  of  Music.  In  addition 
to  the  support  of  the  annual  Insti- 
tute by  law,  the  good  of  the  schools 
demanded  more  meetings,  and  reg- 
ular monthly  Teachers'  Meetings 
were  held  during  the  school  term 
at  Marion  or  some  other  convenient 
point  in  the  County.  At  these  meet- 
ings questions  and  problems  were 
discussed  which  directly  touched  up- 
on the  duties  of  the  hour;  a  course 
of  professional  reading  for  the 
teacher,  recommended  by  a  State 
Committee,  was  also  discussed.  The 
State  Course  (old  JIanual  and  Guide 
of  Study)  came  in  for  some  discus- 
sion at  almost  every  meeting,  and 
like  every  other  innovation  that  is 
worth  anything,  was  opposed  by  not 
a  few  good  teachers.  The  res.ilts  of 
these  meetings  and  an  ambition  by 
some  of  the  teachers  of  the  county 
to  see  what  other  teachers  in  ad- 
joining counties  were  using,  re- 
sulted in  the  organization  at  Stone- 
fort,  in  February,  IS 9 3,  of  the  Tri- 
Oounty  or  Union  Teachers'  Meet- 
ing, composed  of  the  counties  of 
Williamson,  Saline  and  Johnson, 
(since  Joined  by   Pope  County.) 

The  meetings  of  this  organization 
are  held  anntially  at  one  of  the 
County  Seat  towns,  during  the  two 
days  following  Thanksgiving.  Be- 
sides an  address  at  this  annual 
meeting  by  some  prominent  edu- 
cator, one  of  the  leading  features 
was  a  discussion  of  the  adaptation 
of  the  State  Course  of  Study  to  our 
common    schools. 

M.  N.  Swan  was  elected  in  the 
Fall  of  1S98  to  succeed  T.  J.  Young- 
blood.  Mr.  Swan  served  until 
December,  1902. 

The  academic  work  done  in  the 
early  Institute  of  the  County  now 
has  given  place  to  almost  exclusive 
professional  training,  the  theory  be- 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


WILLIAM    AIRMAN, 
Deceased. 

ing  that  in  a  five  days'  Institute  the 
time  cannot  be  devoted  to  learning 
Arithmetic,  Geography,  etc.,  things 
that  can  be  learned  at  school  or  at 
home.  Mr.  Swan  emphasized  the 
importance  of  professional  prepara- 
tion, maintaining  that  qualifications 
of  teachers  should  and  must  keep 
pace  with  the  expenditures  for 
school  purposes.  The  attendance 
at  the  annual  Institutes  and  the 
monthly  Teachers'  Meetings  show 
how  well  the  teachers  fell  in  with 
this  idea  of  professional  improve- 
ment. While  the  academic  instruc- 
tion of  the  teacher  was  urged  to  be 
sought  at  other  times  than  at  the 
annual  Institute,  a  strong  and  ef- 
fective demand  was  made  that  it  be 
obtained,  and  that  the  teacher  pos- 
sess equal  moral  fitness.  Normal 
Schools,   Colleges  and  Select  Schools 


MRS.    MARY    AIRMAN, 
(nee   Cox.) 

were  well  attended  by  teachers  and 
those  expecting  to  teach.  Mr.  Swan, 
at  the  conclusion  of  his  term,  left  a 
strong,  healthy  school  sentiment, 
the  patrons,  as  well  as  the  teacher, 
seeing  the  importance  of  more  than 
ordinary    knowledge    of   the   teacher. 

R.  O.  Clarida,  the  present  incum- 
bent, succeeded  Mr.  Swan  as  County 
Superintendent  in  1902.  Mr.  Clar- 
ida enters  upon  his  duties  in  the 
63rd  year  of  the  life  of  the  schools 
of  Williamson  County.  In  view  of 
the  first  report  made  by  the  School 
Commissioner  in  1S63,  it  is  well  to 
give  a  few  figures  of  the  report 
made  by  Mr.  Clarida  in  the  fall  of 
1903,  forty  years  after  the  first  re- 
port. These  items  of  the  report 
follow: 

"Number  of  teachers  employed, 
173;    No.    of    Districts,    105;    No.    of 


H.    M.    RICKART    and    GRANDSON. 

The  only  child  of  an  only  son; 
Frederick  William  Rickart,  all  of 
Lauder  near  Carterville,  111. 


libraries,  5S;  No.  of  Vols,  in  li- 
braries, 5022;  amount  paid  teach- 
ers for  the  year  (1902)  $41,130.58; 
whole  amount  for  all  school  pur- 
poses paid  for  the  year  (1902) 
$58,569.00;  No.  of  children,  15,756; 
No.  of  school  age,  11,030;  No.  en- 
rolled for  the  year  (1902),  9,012; 
value  of  school  property,  $10  8- 
248.50;  value  of  apparatus,  $3,256- 
.00;  value  of  libraries,  $2827.90; 
No.  enrolled  at  annual  Institute, 
166;  No.  of  days  Institute  was  in 
session,  5;  expenses  of  Institute, 
$144.73;     instructors,     H.    W.     Shry- 

W.     Asbury 

and     R.     O 


Sarah     Mont- 
Clarida,     con- 


RESIDENCE    OP   M.  W.   ROBERTSON. 


ock,  J 
gomery 
ductor." 

By  a  glance  at  the  above  it  can 
readily  be  seen  the  great  quantity 
of  work  to  be  done  by  the  County 
Superintendent  over  and  above  what 
was  required  in  an  earlier  day.  It 
is  true,  the  County  Superintendent 
is  now  under  the  law,  allowed  a 
specified  salary,  but  compared  with 
the  increased  amount  of  work  and 
the  increased  responsibility,  it  is 
not  more,  if  hardly  equal,  to  the 
emoluments  of  the  office  in  the 
early  days. 

Mr.  Clarida  took  up  the  work  at 
the  close  of  Mr.  Swan's  term  with  a 
strong  arm,  the  State  Course  of 
Study  and  professional  work  being 
among  the  strong  features  of  the 
service.  Resulting  from  complete 
gradation  of  the  common  schools  by 
reason  of  the  use  of  the  Course  of 
Study  therein,  County  Graduation 
Exercises  were  held  at  an  evening 
of  the  annual  Teachers'  Institute  in 
1903.  A  large  class  of  pupils  were 
given  diplomas  for  finishing  the 
Course  at  this,  the  first  annual 
County   Commencement.      The   effect 


SOUX'EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COLA^TV.  ILLIN'OIS. 


45 


REV.    X.    A.    HUXT.    Deed. 
Presbyterian      Minister,      Built 
second   house   in    Marion   and 
first    church. 


the 
the 


MRS.   CLARISSA   HUXT,   Dec'd. 
Wife  of  Rev.  N.  A.  Hunt. 


ALOXZO  P.  BAKER,  M.  D. 
Cottage  Home,  niinois. 


seems  to  have  been  electrical  among 
the  pupils  and  patrons  of  the  count.v 
throughout. 

A  course  of  professional  reading 
is  pursued  by  the  teachers,  in  which 
they  have  to  show  themselves  rea- 
sonably proficient  by  examination 
before   they  are   permitted   to  teach. 

The    educational    outlook    in     the 


county  was  never  quite  so  bright  as 
now.  1904.  The  wages  of  county 
teachers  in  many  places  are  suf- 
ficiently large  as  to  have  a  tendency 
to  lead  some  teachers  to  Jife  work, 
or  to  dignify  country  teaching  up 
to  a  profession. 

As   a    means     of   helping    and   en- 
couraging teachers  to  do  better  pro- 


fessional work,  the  Teachers'  Coun- 
ty Library  is  serving  a  useful  pur- 
pose, there  being  now  2  09  volumes, 
bearing  on  every  phase  of  school 
work.  These  books  are  freely  read 
liy  the  teachers  of  the  county,  espe- 
cially by  the  young  teachers.  A  fee 
of  $1  constitutes  a  life  membership. 
Jlembers  are  privileged  to  draw  and 


THE    OLD    DR.     LE\Vt.-3    OR    GALLIGHER   HOUSE. 
The  Second  Residence  built   in   Marion.   Hlinois.      The   brick   at  the   corn  er  stands  on  the  spot  where  Rev.  N. 
A.    Hunt  built    the    first    Church   erected    in    Marion. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLL\()!S. 


FRANK    P.    GILLIS,    M.    D. 


L.  B.   OASEY,  11.   D. 


RESIDENCE  OF  ROBERT  C.   THOMPSON,   ERECTED   1S92. 

Names  of  ?roup  from  left  to  right.  Top  row— William  Spoors,  Joseph  Smith,  .lohn  Smith,  Belle 
Smith,  his  wife.  Miss  Clara  Thompson,  John  Cassedy,  Miss  Margaret  Thompson,  Jlrs.  ilary  Thompson, 
Joseph  Thompson,  her  husbani.  Second  row — Harry  Thompson,  with  horse  and  buggy,  Robert  C.  Thomp- 
son and  his  grandson,  Lester  Thom^sTn,  Mrs.  Anna  Thompson  and  her  grandson,  Robert  T.,  Harry  Bell 
and  his  daughter   Maggie,   James  W.   Bell,   Mrs.    Hannah    Bell   and   daughter  Elsie. 


SOUX'EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUXTY,  ILLLXOIS. 


REV.    J.    S.    EDMONDS, 
Late  Pastor  of  Missionarj-  Baptist  Church, 
now  of  Bl.ackwell,   Oklahoma. 


FARM   RESIDENCE   OF    WILLIS    AIK.MAX. 


keep  a  book  six  weeks,  and  a  fail- 
ure to  return  it  at  the  end  of  that 
time  subjects  the  delinquent  to  a 
fine  of  ten  cents.  A  board  of  three 
directors  is  elected  at  each  annual 
Institute,  who  has  control  of  the 
Library,  and  who  is  empowered  to 
purchase  new  books  and  to  pre- 
scribe  new   rules. 

As  a  means  of  enthusing  and 
stimulating  patrons  as  well  as  pu- 
pils  and   teachers,    a   school    officers' 


meeting  was  held  at  the  County 
.^eat  in  the  summer  of  1903.  This 
proved  an  innovation.  It  clearly 
showed  the  need  of  closer  touch  of 
Superintendent,  teachers  and  school 
officers,  as  well  as  patrons.  This 
meeting  is  to  be  a  yearly  feature, 
and  promises  untold  good  for  the 
common  schools.  At  each  session 
is  to  be  discussed  vital  questions  af- 
fecting the  schools  for  good,  as  well 
as  bad. 


Thus  it  is  that  the  schools  of 
Williamson  County  nave  grown 
from  the  back  woods,  old-time  insti- 
tution to  the  modern  Public  School, 
as  good  as  any  in  tlie  state,  or  as 
any  in  the  Middle  West. 


FIRST    MISSIONARY   BAPTIST    CHURCH. 


ROBERT   O.   CLARIDA. 

Robert  O.  Clarida,  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools,  is  of  German 
and  Irish  parentage,  his  father,  a 
native  of  Virginia  and  his  mother 
of  Tennessee.  He  was  born,  reared 
and  educated  in  Williamson  County, 
and  has  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  in  promoting  the  interests  of 
the  public  schools.  His  father, 
Archibald  Clarida,  died  while 
Robert  was  quite  young,  and  to  his 
mother  largely  belongs  the  credit 
of  his  rearing.  In  order  to  com- 
plete his  education  he  was  com- 
pelled to  begin  teaching  at  2  0  and 
for  14  successive  years  taught  in 
the  schools  of  the  County.  Much 
of  this  time  he  worked  on  the  farm 
summers  and  taught  winters.  He 
succeeded  in  getting  in  four  years 
at  Crab  Orchard  Academy,  and 
graduated  in  1S9G.  It  is  an  indi- 
cation of  his  worth  as  a  teacher 
that  he  taught  one  school  eight 
terms,  and  the  last  three  terms  of 
his    14    years   at   Crab   Orchard. 

In  1902  he  was  elected  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  on  the 
Republican  ticket  by  a  majority  of 
8  00,    running   ahead    of   his    ticket. 

May  27th,  1S91,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Dora  Wilson, 
daughter   of   A.    H.    Wilson,   of   Crab 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIA.MSOX   OJUXTV,  ILLINOIS. 

MARION  STATE  AND  SAVINGS  BANK. 


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W.    W.    WHITTIXGTON, 

Vice    President. 


W.  G.   COCHRAN, 
Director. 


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THOS.   A.   COX, 
Director. 


w.M.  T.  .\p:\vtox, 

Director. 


C.    H.    DENISON, 
President. 


EARL  B.  JACKSON, 
Cashier. 


J.    H.    BURXETT.    Director. 

Collector      International        Revenue, 

St.  l.ouis,  Mo. 


W.    J.    AIRMAN, 
Director. 


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SOU\'ENlR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


HON.    WILLIAM   H.    BUN  DY. 


W.    S.   BURKHART, 
Cashier    Williamson    Co.    Bank. 


Orchard.      The.v   have   had   four  chil-  Count.v     Sunday    School    Association. 

dren,    three    girls   and    one    boy,    the  He    is    a    member    of    the    Modern 

eldest.         He     is   a     member   of    the  Woodmen,   an  Odd  Fellow,   and  also 

Methoiist     Episcopal     Church,      and  belongs    to   the     Blue    Lodge   A.     F. 

is   the    President    of   the    Williamson  and  A.  M. 


JAS.    W.    TIRXEK. 


James  W.  Tui-ner,  Ex-Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  at  Carterville, 
commenced  teaching  in  1S6S,  taught 


The   elegant   home   of   the   Hon.   William   H.    Bundy,   on   South   Market   Street,   ilarion.   111.      Erected  in   1S96. 


SOUVEXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUXTY,  ILLINOIS. 


51 


JOAB   GOODALL. 


eleven  years  in  country  schools, 
nine  terms  being  in  the  same  dis- 
trict. Was  principal  of  Stone  Fort 
Schools  from  '79  to  'S3;  conductor 
of  the  Williamson  County  Institute 
in  'S3,  and  was  assistant  instructor 
for  many  years.  Was  principal  of 
Marion  schools  in  the  year  of  'S3-4. 
Was  principal  of  Crab  Orchard  pub- 
lic schools  for  five  years;  founder  of 
Crab  Orchard  Academy  in  18S9,  and 
served  as  principal  of  that  Institu- 
tion for  twenty  consecutive  terms. 
Was  again  principal  of  Stone  Fort 
schools  from  '9G  to  '9  9,  organized 
Carterville  High  School  in  1S99, 
and  has  served  as  Superintendent  of 
that  school  since.  Was  chosen  Pres- 
ident of  the  Tri-County  Teachers' 
Association  for  1904. 


THE.    MARION     CITY 
SCHOOLS. 

By  Prof.  J.  W.  Asbury. 


Anything  like  a  complete  and  im- 
partial history  of  public  education 
in  Marion  would  fill  a  volumn. 
Hence  we  shall  have  to  content  our- 
selves with  a  more  or  less  meager 
"write  up."  There  are  doubtless 
many  incidents  of  both  interest  and 
importance  in  the  minds  of  many 
of  the  citizens  which  the  writer 
either  does  not  know  or  cannot 
use.  A  great  many  citizens  have 
been  connected  intimately  with  the 
schools  as  teachers  and  as  officers; 
some  of  them  will  receive  mention 
for  one  reason  or  another,  while 
others  will  not.  Xeither  partiality 
nor  slight  is  intended. 

The  school  sentiment  of  our  town 
has  always  been  reasonably  strong 
and  healthful.  In  fact,  an  over- 
whelming majority  of  the  American 
people  believe  thoroughly  in  the 
free  school.     It   is  our  most   distinc- 


MRS.    GOODALL. 


five  institution,  as  a  nation.  It  is 
the  most  democratic  of  our  free  in- 
stitutions. The  lives  of  all  the  peo- 
ple are  definitely  touched  by  its 
power  and  influence.  Here,  at  least, 
all  are  for  several  years  on  an 
equality.  The  children  of  the  rich 
and  poor,  the  influential  and  the 
obscure,  have  the  same  advantages 
and  opportunities.  What  an  in- 
estimable privilege  for  all  classes! 
What  a  God  send  to  the  poor  and 
those    even    of    moderate    means! 

However,  as  is  true  everywhere, 
the  common  school  has  had  its  op- 
ponents in  Marion.  Some  men, 
prominent  in  social,  political  and 
financial  affairs,  have  been  opposed 
to  the  free  school  as  it  has  devel- 
oped. As  the  course  of  study  has 
been  extended,  as  the  length  of 
term  has  been  increased,  as  modern 
buildings  have  been  constructed,  all 
of  which  call  for  greater  expendi- 
tures of  money  and  higher  taxes, 
some   men   have  been   found   on    the 


wrong  side.  And  although  these 
men  frequently  controlled  in  other 
affairs,  they  have  been,  as  they  al- 
ways will  be,  unable  to  divorce  pub- 
lic sentiment  from  its  devotion  to 
.America's  most  fundamental  insti- 
tution— the    public   free   school. 

Back  somewhere  about  1855,  a 
four-room,  two-story  frame  build- 
ing was  erected  for  school  purposes. 
Doubtless  there  was  a  school  for 
years  before  that,  as  no  community 
of  American  people  will  long  be 
without  a  school,  public  or  private. 
This  building  seems  to  have  been 
adequate  till  about  1881-82.  when 
a  two-room  ad-Iition  was  built.  This 
building  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  the 
year  1SS5-S6,  then  the  town  built 
a  good  eight-room,  two-story  brick, 
which  is  still  used.  The  increase 
in  population  called  for  a  four- 
room  addition  in  1S96-97.  Such  is 
our  present  West  Side  school  build- 
ing. 

Marion  had  so  increased  in  pop- 
ulation by  1901  that  a  building, 
partly  for  High  School  and  partly 
for  the  grades,  became  an  absolute 
necessity.  The  splendid  East  Side 
school  property  is  the  result,  a  fit- 
ting monument  to  all  the  people 
who  favored  the  enterprise,  more 
directly  to  the  entire  board  of  edu- 
cation, but  more  especially  to  the 
public  spirited  President  and  Sec- 
retary, who  gave  much  of  their  val- 
uable time,  cheerfully,  to  the  de- 
mands of  the  business  then  in  hand. 

One  Mr.  Scurlock  taught  school 
in  Marion  about  the  beginning  of 
the    Civil    War    or    before.  Then 

Mr.  Eb.  Hearn  was  principal  with 
Mrs.  J.  C.  .Jackson  as  his  assistant, 
in  1S61-62.  Their  salaries  were 
$40  and  $2  0  respectively,  and  they 
did  their  own  janitor  work.  Dur- 
ing their  early  years  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Scurlock   taught   for  some   time. 


RESIDENCE   OF    .JOAB   GOODALL. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


JOHN  H.  WHITE. 
Killed  at  the  Battle  of  Ft.  Donaldson. 


The  records  that  are  available 
begin  in  1,S7S.  J.  M.  Burkhart  was 
clerk  of  the  Board.  For  some 
years,  beginning  in  1S79,  M.  W. 
Robertson  was  treasurer  of  the 
school  district;  J.  C.  Jackson  took 
the  census:  W.  J.  Spiller  was  fur- 
nishing coal:  J.  H.  Duncan  sold 
lumber;  W.  H.  Warder,  insurance; 
Bainbridge  &  Goddard,  curtains;  J. 
C.  Mitchell,  register  and  charts: 
Anthony  Feator  did  the  plastering, 
and  X.  Davis  an  1  Robert  Pride  re- 
ceived  pay   for   janitor   work. 


There  were  five  teachers  em- 
ployed, at  salaries  which  compare 
favorably  with  those  paid  at  the 
present:  C.  C.  Stollar,  principal  for 
several  years,  $75;  Georgia  Wrot- 
en,  $35:  Parle  Vick,  $35;  Helen 
Yost,  $35;  G.  W.  Rowley,  $2  2. 
Misses  Wroten  and  Yost  taught  in 
the    schools   for    many   years. 

The  following  are  some  of  the 
men  who  have  had  charge  of  the 
schools,  that  are  remembered  as 
being  strong,  successful  school  men 
bv    many    of    our    ciitzens: 


AMZI    F.    WHITE    AND    HIS    FAVORITE    COMPANIONS. 


DR.  H.  D.  NORRIS. 
Osteopath. 

E.   C.   Hill,    1880. — He   was   publicly 
in  charge  of  the  school  some  time 
previous.      He    succeeded    in    mak- 
ing the  term  nine  months. 
M.    G.    Kimmel,    1884-86. — Noted    as 
a  disciplinarian  of  the  "old  type." 
The   man   the   school   needed.      He 
knew    everything    the    pupils    did 
in    school    and   out. 
B.    F.    Kiser,    1886-89. — A     fine     in- 
structor and   well   educated.        He 
had     an     extraordinary     memory. 
Married   a   Miss   Goddard. 
S.    C.    Ncwsolne,    1890-92. — He    was 
one  of  the  best  all-round  men  the 
school     has   ever    had.        He    has 
held    for   some   years   the   position 
of    Department    Superintendent    in 
the    Philippine    Islands,    at    about 
$2  500   per  year. 
W.    R.    Kinisey,    1892-94. — At     pres- 
ent  he  is   County   Superintendent, 
Perry    County. 
E.    Loushoiis,      1894-97. — Now     with 
Ginn  &  Co.      Married  Miss  Bundy, 
and     was    Superintendent    of     the 
Metropolis    Schools    for    six   years. 
Other  men  who  were  at   the  head 
of  the  school  for  one  or  more  years 
were: 

Dr.  John  Washburn,  who  received 
the  highest  salary — $100  per 
month  and  all  non-resident  tui- 
tion— of  any  past  superintendents 
of  schools  in  JIarion.  He  was 
probably  the  finest  classical 
scholar  ever  connected  with  the 
school. 
J.   R.   Davis.    18,S!-8.S. 


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53 


SAM,  MARY   AND  RUTH, 
Children   of   Samuel   H.   Goodall.   together   with   Jem,   the   Shetland    Pony. 


Jas.   W.    Tuiiiei-,    lSX:5-«4 — Now    Su- 
perintendent   of     Carterville      Public 

Schools. 
LaFayette    Hunter,     1889-00. 
I.    O.    Kairakoi-,    1897-98. — At    pres- 
ent  a  banker  at   Jonesboro. 
School    work    is    not    all    done     by 
principals    and    superintendents,    any 
more    than    all    the   fighting   is   done 
by   Generals  in   the   army.     The  fol- 
lowing   teachers    have    been    spoken 
of   as   having   been   very   efficient     in 


various  grades,  perhaps  the  list 
ought  to   be  extended: 

Georgia  Wroten,  Helen  Yost,  Ger- 
trude Warder,  Lou  Nance,  Adde 
Goodall,  Augusta  Jackson,  Ada 
Jetej',  J.  A.  Emerson,  Frank  Joiner, 
F.  M.  Beaty,  John  Reid,  Beulah 
Hall. 

The  character  of  men  who  serve 
on  School  Boards,  who  have  the 
business  management  of  the  schools 
and    who    stand    in    support    of     the 


Superintendent  and  teachers,  have 
much  to  do  in  determining  what  the 
schools  shall  be.  The  following 
have  been  staunch  supporters  of  the 
public  schools   in  Marion: 

N.  B.  Calvert,  W.  R.  Hall,  A.  N. 
Lodge,  C.  M.  Edwards,  John  Good- 
all,  G.  W.  Young,  C.  H.  Denison,  J. 
C.  Jackson,  J.  M.  Burkhart,  W.  W. 
Duncan. 

But  the  limits  of  this  paper  pre- 
vent the  mentioning  of  many 
others,  teachers,  officers  and  friends 
of  the  school,  that  the  community 
should  remember  gratefully  and 
honor. 

There  are  many  curious  and  sug- 
gestive items  recorded  in  the  treas- 
urer's book.  But  one  of  the  most 
strikingly  suggestive  is  "To  W.  M. 
Dunston,     straps    for    school,      70c." 

The  growth  of  the  school  may  be 
noted  in  various  ways — In  the  char- 
acter and  size  of  school  buildings, 
in  the  length  of  term  and  the  char- 
acter of  course  of  study,  in  number 
of  teachers  employed  and  the  en- 
rollment of  pupils,  in  the  increase 
of  population  of  city  of  Marion,  in 
the  amount  expended  annually  for 
the  support   of  rhe  schools. 


RESIDENCE    OF    S.    H.    GOODALL. 
Corner  North   Market      Street    and    Boulevard. 


Census    Rpt. 

Boys. 

Girls. 

Total. 

1S93 

;se 

250 

536 

1898 

355 

402 

757 

1903 

761 

8  22 

15S3 

Enrollment   in 

School 

1892-93 

247 

209 

456 

1898-99 

301 

328 

629 

1902-03 

571 

621 

1192 

Jan.   1904   ovei 

1350. 

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S(  )r\i':y 


W  ll.l  lAMSoX    CoL'XTV,  ILLINOIS. 


A.   p.  WHITE'S    BUILDING. 


The  growth  was  gradual  until 
1900  and  1901,  since  which  time 
the  school  population  has  increased 
more  than   100   per  cent. 

The  annual  expenditures  have  in- 
creased till  about  $15,000  is  now 
required. 

Perhaps  the  greatest  strides  in 
the  development  of  the  city  schools 
have  been  taken  during  the  past  six 
years.  The  first  was  in  legislative 
act  giving  the  district  a  Board  of 
Education  of  six  members  and  a 
president.  The  plan  gives  better  re- 
presentatives and  more  share  the  re- 
sponsibility. The  people  have  used 
good  judgment  in  electing  mem- 
bers of  the  Board.  The  second  was 
in  changing  from  a  three-year  to  a 
four-year  High  School  course  of 
study.  This  has  brought  us  well 
up  to  the  standard  for  High  Schools 
in  this  and  other  states.  The  third 
was  in  the  erection  of  the  East  Side 
school  building,  modern  and  up-to- 
date,  though  now  too  small  on  ac- 
count of  the  rapid  increase  in  popu- 
lation. The  fourth  was  in  securing 
a  place  on  the  accredited  list  with 
the  State  University.  This  was 
possible  by  showing  that  our  work 
done  was  of  such  high  excellence 
that  we  were  entitled  to  this  recog- 
nition and  by  the  efficient  aid  of 
our  Rep.,  Mr.  Warder.  The  fifth 
was  in  expanding  our  High  School 
course  of  study,  offering  some  elec- 
tives.  The  sixfh  is  in  the  policy  of 
the  Board  of  Education  to  retain,  if 
possible,  from  year  to  year  teachers 
who  do  effective  work,  thus  making 
the  work  throughout  all  grades  and 
departments  more  efficient  from 
year  to  year,  simply  a  very  practical 
application    of     the    basic    principles 


of  the   reforms  in  our  Civil   Service. 
Pi'eseiit    Corjts    of   Teachers. 

J.  W.  Asbury,  Superintendent; 
Bettie  Peterson,  Minnie  Whittock, 
Augusta  Henry,  May  Gallagher, 
Carrie  Malone,  Agnes  Sherertz, 
Aetha  Perry,  Dyrd  Spiller,  Anna 
Thompson,  Maude  Cocke,  Lola 
Howe,  Ada  Edvvards,  Ellen  Sim- 
mons, Ella  Lightfoot,  Alice  Sam- 
uels, Mary  Bentley,  J.  S.  Campbell, 
Florence  Hill,  Nan  Hundley.  Lillian 
Tuter,    C.    C.    Durney,    W.    A.    Cook. 

Total  number  of  pupils  enrolled, 
1354. 

Present    indications   are    that    next 


year  the  High  School  will  demand 
entire  second  story  of  the  East  Side 
building  and  that  the  7th  and  Sth 
grades  must  have  another  room. 
Hence,  two  rooms  will  have  to  be 
sacrificed  and  the  increase  in  grades 
below  7th  will  demand  four  more 
rooms.  A  six-room  building  will  be 
needed.  Can  it  be  furnished  by 
the   community? 

We  are  conscious  that  in  the 
above  there  is  but  a  meager  amount 
of  history.  May  we  not  be  permit- 
ted to  say  that  the  demands  of  a 
multitude  of  luties  have  made  it 
impossible  to  devote  the  time  to 
this  matter  that  would  be  required 
were  one  to  prepare  any  worthy 
history  of  the  Marion  Schools.  The 
school  problems  have  not  all  been 
solved  for  our  city.  The  schools 
are  overcrowded  and  the  population 
increases  day  by  day.  Much  wis- 
dom and  sound  judgment  will  be 
required  continually.  The  expenses 
will  be  considerable,  for  additional 
teachers  and  a  new  building.  The 
people  are  intere.sted  in  the  schools, 
the  school  spirit  is  good.  The  poli- 
cies of  the  educational  administra- 
tors are,  we  think,  sound  and  lib- 
eral. Let  there  be  no  backward 
step.  J.  W.   ASBURY, 


%  m.  Hsbury. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  Supt. 
J.  W.  Asbury,  was  born  in  18  68,  in 
the  northeastern  part  of  the  "Blue 
Grass  State."  His  ancestry,  Eng- 
lish on  his  father's  and  German  on 
his  mother's  side,  were  successful 
and  substantial  tillers  of  the  soil. 
They  were  always  public  spirited 
and      influential      citizens.  Their 

views    were    nor    narrow,    but    they 
were     pronounced     in    their    atitude 


A    MiTiy  Suniiih  r  ilronp  Posing  for  a   Picturt'  at   Marion. 
Guess  Who  They  Are. 


SOU\  EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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ilAKIUX    FLUUi;iX(!    MIL 


AX1>    i:i,lCVATOK. 


The  fine  flouring  mills  and  elevator  illustrated  lierewitli  stand  on 
North  Market  street  and  the  Illinois  Central  track.  Mr.  Whittington 
run  it  as  a  private  enterprise  for  five  years  before  it  was  incorporated, 
which  took  place  early  in  the  present  year.  The  new  management  took 
possession  March  4th.  They  run  six  double  stand  of  rolls  with  a  daily 
capacity  of  100  barrels.  Their  out-put  is  entirely  disposed  of  in  South- 
ern Illinois  with  the  exception  of  shipments  to  Paducah.  Kentucky. 
The  elevator  has  a  capacity  of  45,000  barrels,  and  has  been  in  charge 
of  T.  J.  Erwin  for  eleven  years.  The  following  gentlemen  run  the  busi- 
ness of  the  new  corporation:  W.  W.  "Whittington.  President;  S.  W. 
Swain,  Vice  President.  Secretary  and  General  Manager;  Directors — C. 
C.  Whittington.   D.   C.   Brien   and   W.    H.    Rix. 


mented  his  liberal  education  by  ex- 
tensive travel  both  in  this  country 
and  in  Europe.  He  realizes  that  a 
school  man  in  particular  must  be 
progressive  in  spirit  to  escape  fos- 
silization.  He  is  also  active  in  lo- 
cal and  state  associations,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  National  Edu- 
cational Association  for  several 
years. 

He  always  identifies  himself,  so 
far  as  is  consistent  with  his  duties, 
with  the  interests  and  welfare  of 
the  community  in  which  he  labors. 
While  here,  he  has  been  active  in 
conducting  entertainment  courses  of 
a  high  order.  He  has  been,  and  is 
yet,  active  in  Church  and  Sunday 
School  work  in  the  M.  E.  Church 
South,  of  which  he  is  a  member, 
and  in  the  County.  He  attributes 
his  success,  in  no  small  degree,  to 
his  interest  and  activity  in  what- 
ever pertains  to  the  moral  and  in- 
tellectual welfare  of  the  community 
in  general.  He  does  not  believe 
that  a  school  man  should  be  expect- 
ed  to   forfeit   his  citizenship. 

Prof.  Asbury  married  Miss  Zada 
Baker  January  1st,  1903,  and  thus 
started  in  life  snew.  To  them  a 
son  has  been  born,  and  the  auspices 
for  their  happiness  are  favorable. 
Mr.  Asbury  is  yet  a  young  man, 
scarcely  having  reached  his  prime. 
His  professional  career  having  only 
begun,  he  may  confidently  expect 
promotions  and  markel  professional 
success   in   the  luture. 


upon  religious  and  political  ques- 
tions. All  were  Methodists,  but  in 
politics  one  side  were  republicans, 
and  the  other  democrats. 

Mr.  Asbury  received  his  early 
education  in  the  common  schools; 
later  he  spent  about  five  years  in 
Normal  Schools  at  Glasgow,  Ky.. 
and  at  Valparaiso,  Indiana.  He 
spent  one  summer  in  the  University 
of    Illinois.  His    years    in    school 

were  not  consecutive,  the  interven- 
ing   time    being    spent    in    teaching. 

His  first  experience  as  a  teacher 
was  in  the  rural  schools  of  Ken- 
tucky. For  three  years  he  was  ward 
principal  at  Somerset,  Kentucky, 
one  year  principal  of  the  schools  at 
Mayslick,  Kentucky,  two  years 
principal  of  the  Intermediate  De- 
partment of  the  city  schools  at 
Maysville,  Kentucky,  and  for  the 
past  six  years  Superintendent  of 
the   Marion    City   Schools. 

Mr.  Asbury  has  always  succeeded 
Early  habits  of  industry  and  self- 
reliance  have  to  far  made  success 
possible.  He  has  always  stood 
well  with  the  people  and  as  a  stu- 
dent ranked  with  the  best.  The 
institutions  from  which  he  has 
graduated  have  conferred  upon  him 
the  degrees  of  B.  S..  A.  B.  and  B. 
Pd.  The  fact  that  he  has  given 
such  universal  satisfaction  in  his 
present  position  and  that  the  schools 


have  made  su'jn  decided  progress 
under  his  administration  is  the 
strongest  testimonial  to  his  charac- 
ter and  efficiency. 

During  the  -last  few  years  Mr. 
Asbury  has  become  known  as  a 
popular  and  efficient  Institute  in- 
structor,        Mr.    Asbury    has    supple- 


prof.  «i.  H.  Cooh. 

Principal  W.  A.  Cook  is  a  native 
of  Bureau  County,  111.  His  boy- 
hood days,  until  he  was  eleven, 
were  spent  on  the  farm.  He  then 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Ke- 
wanee,     graduating    from   the     High 


CEMETERY    AT    MARION.    ILL. 


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HENRY    BROWX    AND    FAMILY. 


the  city's  rapidly  increasing  popula- 
tion tlie  two  large  and  commolious 
schools,  East  and  West,  have  long 
been  inadequate  to  accommodate 
the  pupils,  and  the  building  just 
finished  has  been  in  contemplation 
for  a  long  time.  It  adds  between 
250  and  40  0  to  the  seating  capac- 
ity of  the  schools  of  the  city.  The 
four  large  rooms  on  the  main  floor, 
only,  will  be  utilized  the  present 
term,  leaving  the  three  rooms  on 
the  basement  floor  to  be  finished 
and  occupied  next  year.  The  build- 
ing is  of  dark  red  repressed  Belle- 
ville brick,  with  slate  roof  and 
stone  trimmings,  and  was  erected 
after  plans  furnished  by  G.  W.  Ash- 
by,  Architect,  Riverside,  111.  This 
gentleman  was  chosen  not  because 
Marion  could  not  furnish  a  capable 
architect,    but    because    it    had    one 


STORE    BUILUINU    OF    HENRY    BROWN.    MARION.    II. I. 


School  in  '9S.  After  graduation  he 
took  the  state  scholarship  examina- 
tion, and  entersd  the  State  Univer- 
sity, graduating  from  there  in  190  2. 
While  in  the  (Iniversity  Mr.  Cook 
was  quite  prominent  in  athletics, 
especially  class  athletics.  He  also 
wrote  the  essay  that  won  the  Bryan 
prize,  represented  Illinois  in  Inter- 
collegiate debate,  and  won  third  in 
Oratorical  contest.  Since  gradua- 
tion he  has  been  teaching.  His 
first  year  was  spent  as  Principal  of 
the  Albion  (111.)  High  School,  and 
last  year  he  came  to  Marion,  where 
he  has  been  -engaged  for  another 
year. 

XZhe   Second  QIard  New  School 
Building. 

This  plain  and  substantial  addi- 
tion to  the  school  facilities  of  Ma- 
rion was  begun  last  July  and  com- 
pleted   in   November.    1904.         With 


HENRY    BROWN'S    RESIDENCE. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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THE    GREENHOUSES     OF     J.    P.    COPELAND 
Florist   and   Gardener. 


too  many.  Both  Robert  C.  Noll 
and  Ed  Gill  are  men  of  recognized 
merit  and  both  wanted  the  job. 
Both  have  warm  friends  on  the 
Board,  which  was  about  equally  di- 
vided on  their  respective  claims. 
The  contention  was  so  sharp  that 
the  candidates  themselves  recom- 
mended a  third  man,  and  Mr.  Ash- 
by  got  the  appointment.  No  one 
regrets  the  selection,  as  the  work 
has  been  well  done  and  gives  uni- 
versal   satisfaction. 

Utility,  convenience,  health  and 
safety  have  never  been  lost  sight 
of  from  start  to  finish,  and  the  re- 
sult is  a  handsome  and  up-to-date 
structure  which  does  honor  to  all 
concerned. 

The  following  data  was  furnished 
by  Mr.  O.  M.  Williams,  of  Noll  & 
Williams,  contractors,  and  taken  di- 
rectly from  the  blue-print  plans  of 
the  architect.  They  are  given  for 
presei-vation  and  reference,  and 
may  be  considered  reliable:  Size, 
over  all,  59  feet  7  Inches  by  81  feet 
2  inches;  height  over  all  to  comb 
of  roof,  4  5  feet;  central  hall,  from 
door  to  door,  17  by  59  feet.  The 
school  rooms  open  out  of  the  cen- 
tral hall,  and  there  is  a  main  stair- 
case running  down  to  the  exits 
east  and  west,  having  solid  oak 
doors  with  plate  glass  in  the  upper 
half  and  having  double  action 
hinges  for  safety  in  case  of  panic 
or  fire.  All  rooms  are  27  feet  by 
30  feet,  and  13  feet  9  inches  high. 
The  lower  rooms  are  10  feet  in  the 
clear.  Each  room  is  provided  with 
a  glass-front  bookcase,  two  pro- 
gram boards  and  ample  blackboard 
finish  on  the  walls,  done  in  green 
to  protect  the  eye  and  of  the  latest 
and  best  material,  practically  im- 
perishable. The  floors  are  laid 
double,  with  deadening  felt  be- 
tween  to   secure  warmth   and    quiet. 


and  the  rooms  ceiled  up  to  the  win- 
dows, except  the  stairways.  The 
entire  building  is  finished  in 
Georgia  yellow  pine,  and  highly 
polished;  the  stairs  are  of  curled 
maple;  the  plastering  is  of  three- 
coats  of  alibaster,  and  sand-finished 
to  relieve  the  eye.  The  building  is 
well  lighted,  thoroughly  ventilated, 
both  direct  and  indirect,  and  is 
drained  by  tiling  laid  in  cement. 
The  cross-walls  are  all  of  brick,  as 
a    fire    protection. 

The  Professor's  room  is  at  the 
south  end  of  the  hall,  over  the 
stairway     and     between     the     cloak- 


rooms. The  building  is  heated  by 
steam,  furnished  by  a  boiler  in  the 
basement.  The  total  cost  will  be 
about  $10,000.  The  lumber,  lath, 
inside  finish,  doors  and  windows 
were  all  furnished  by  the  Stotlar- 
Herrin  Lumber  Company,  whose 
Marion  representative,  Mr.  Ed  Stot- 
lar,  the  President  of  the  Board  of 
Education,  was  also  Chairman  of 
the  building  committee.  His  as- 
sociates on  the  committee  were: 
Dr.  A.  M.  Edwards,  J.  M.  Burkhart, 
William  J.  Aiknian  and  Lawyer  E. 
E.  Denison.  Griggs  Bros,  and  the 
Marion    pressed-brick    company    fur- 


RESIDENCE    OF   J.    P.    COPELAND. 

This  delightful  an^l  inviting  home  consists  of  five  acres  of  rich 
bottom  land,  lying  towards  the  south  end  of  S.  Court  St.,  parallel  to  and 
south  of  the  C.  &  E.  I.  Railroad.  The  house  was  built  in  1901  by  W. 
L.  Gill  at  a  cost  of  $1200,  Mrs.  M.  L.   Copeland  furnishing  the   plan. 


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\VH1STI>K.    JOHNNIE! 


Whistle  Johnnie  while  I'm  spattin. 

Whistle  sumfln  awful  cute. 
Look    at    me,    here   on    the    mattin. 

Watch  my  fingers,  and  den  toot. 
Now's  de  time  to  have  de  singin. 

While  de  birds  are  singin  too, 
While  de  vineses  are  a  clingin. 

An   de  posies  wet   wif  dew. 


Hark!    de   fiinder.     Whistle   Johnnie! 

Don't   .vou   never   mind   de   rain. 
When   it   comes,  just  whistle   sunifin. 

An   I'll  spat   wif  might  and   main. 
Don't    fraid  for  boo-boos  when  it  funders, 

Whistle,    Johnnie,    while    I    pla.v. 
Keep    up   courage,   make   no   blunders. 

An  de  boo-boos  go  away. 

J.   F.   WILCOX 


nished  all  the  brick  e.vcept  the  fac- 
ing course,  which  were  of  Belle- 
ville   re-pressed   dark    red    brick. 

The  slating  was  done  by  a  St. 
Louis  firm.  The  lime  tor  the  brick 
laying  was  from  St.  Genevieve,  and 
the  sand  from  Spiller's  bank,  de- 
livered by  Laue  Brothers  transfer 
company.  The  plastering  sand  was 
river  sand  from  St.  Louis,  shipped 
over  the  Illinois  Central  Railway. 
The  stone  was  procured  at  Bedford, 
Ind.,  and  the  slating  from  Pennsyl- 
vania. L.  J.  Pergan,  of  Marion,  did 
the  plumbing  and  Frank  Bock  the 
painting.  Albert  Sumner  had  the 
contract    for    lathing. 

The  following  Marion  boys  worked 
on    the   job: 

Carpenters — James  Felts,  Chas. 
Calvert,  John  Jolly,  Geo.  Vick,  Chas. 
Williams,  Roy  Felts,  Chas.  and  Wal- 
lace Peebles,  D.  K.  Noll,  Isaac  Hess, 
Ed  Campbell,  Geo.  Miller  and  Mr. 
Goodman. 

Bricklayers — Doak  Veach,  Fore- 
man; Chas.  Veach,  Gern  Blackbern, 
Sam  and  George  Fuller,  brothers; 
Fritz  Norris,  Bert  Bobbett  and  Sam 
Scobey,   of  Cai'terville. 

The  following  teachers  take 
charge  of  the  classes  in  the  four 
rooms  on  the  main  floor: 

Anna  Thompson.  Nellie  Rich, 
Maud  E.  Roberts  and  Cynthia  Tram- 
mel. 


REV.   F.    L.    THOMPSON. 
Pastor  of  M.  E.  Church. 


METHODIST    EPISCOPAL    CHURCH    BUILDING, 
West    Main    St.,    Marlon,    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAAISOX   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


59 


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r3IRDS-RYE    VIEW    O?^    .MARION     LOOKI.V,;     NORTH. 


Railroads  of  WilliaLin- 
son  County. 


THIS  County  has  at  the  present 
time  four  railroads  doing  bus- 
iness within  its  limits,  besides  the 
Electric  Trolley  line.  The  old  Car- 
bondale  &  Shawneetown  Ry.,  now- 
forming  a  part  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral; the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illi- 
nois, now  a  part  of  the  Rock  Is- 
land, and  included  in  the  "Frisco 
System;"  the  Big  Four  or  the  Cleve- 
land, Cincinnati,  Chicago  and  St. 
Louis,  and  the  Chicago  and  Texas 
now  also  a  part  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral. Being  an  inland  county,  with 
no  river  or  lake  traffic,  it  is  entire- 
ly dependent  upon  its  railroads  for 
its  immense  business.  Being  the 
center  of  the  great  coal  field,  of 
course,  the  heaviest  item  in  its 
transportation  is  coal.  According 
to  the  Illinois  coal  report  for  1902, 
for  the  seventh  district,  composed 
of  the  counties  of  Gallatin,  Hamil- 
ton, Jackson,  Jefferson,  Johnson, 
Perry,  Randolph,  Saline,  Wabash, 
Washington  and  Williamson,  all  of 
which  are  reached  by  the  roads  en- 
umerated, the  total  number  of  tons 
of  coal  shipped  was  3,439.364,  while 
the  total  for  Williamson  County 
alone  was  1,893,414,  or  55f^  per 
cent,   of   the   whole  amount. 


Chicago  «Si  eastern  Illinota  Rail- 
road Company. 

The  southern  end  of  this  road, 
from  Altamont  in  EfiBngham  County 
to  Marion,  was  built  under  contract 
by  Johnson  Brothers  &  Faught,  of 
St.  Elmo,  as  the  Chicago.  Paducah 
and  Memphis,  in  1S95.  In  1899 
the  C.  &  E.  I.  bought  it  and  pushed 
it    on   to   Thebes,   on   the   Mississippi. 


as  a  terminus.  During  the  past 
year  the  Rock  Island  secured  it  and 
made  it  a  part  of  the  Frisco  Sys- 
tem. As  a  matter  of  special  inter- 
est to  Williamson  County,  and  par- 
ticularly to  Marion  and  West 
Frankfort,  it  may  be  said  that  the 
latter  place  has  been  selected  as  a 
division  point,  and  the  shops,  tracks, 
engines,  cars  an  I  working  force 
are  soon  to  be  removed  from  Ma- 
rion. 


Resting    a    Bit    on    the    North    Side   of    the    Square. 


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BIRDS-EYE    VIEW    OF    MARION    LOOKING    EAST. 


Big  four  Railroad  Company. 


Chicago  &.  Ccxas   Railroad- 


The  Big  Four  road  barely  touch- 
es this  county  at  Stone  Fort,  just 
crossing  the  southeast  corner,  where 
it  joins  Saline,  Johnson  and  Pope. 
The  system  is  too  well  known  and 
plays  a  too  important  part  in  the 
commerce  of  this  County  to  merit 
or  require  any  further  notice  from 
this   volume. 


The  Chicago  &  Texas  Railway  is 
a  new  coal  feeder,  which  penetrates 
the  coal  field  at  Johnson  City  and 
runs  southwest  to  Carbondale,  Mur- 
physboro.  Grand  Tower,  Cape  Gi- 
rardeau and  Cairo. 

In  1899  it  became  the  property  of 
the  Illinois  Central  and  is  destined 
to     become    a    very     important     coal 


Getting    Ready    for    a    "Spin."    North    Side    of    Public    Square. 


feeder.  It  shipped  in  1903  1,116,- 
8S0  tons  of  coal  and  four  new  mines 
have  been  openel  on  it  between 
Johnson  City  and  Carterville.  The 
new  Burr  Shaft,  the  Chicago  & 
Johnson  City,  the  Jeffrey  and  the 
Tom  Johns  at  Lauder. 

In  addition  to  the  above  the 
Great  Northern  has  lately  bought 
15,000  acres  of  coal  land  in  this 
county,  and  are  now  surveying  a 
line  from  Centralia  to  the  Ohio 
River.  Coal  men  are  coming  to 
know  that  we  have  an  inexhaust- 
able  supply  of  the  best  soft  coal  in 
the  United  States,  and  are  scramb- 
ling for  territory. 

The  following  account  of  the 
origin  and  building  of  the  first  rail- 
road in  the  County  is  taken  entire 
from  the  History  of  Williamson 
County  by  Milo  Erwin,  and  is  be- 
lieved to  be  reliable.  The  date  of 
the   book   is   given  as   1S7  6: 

"During  the  summer  months, 
from  1S50  to  1872,  there  was  a 
class  of  men  in  this  county  known 
as  teamsters,  who  followed  the  bus- 
iness of  hauling  the  products  of  the 
county  to  the  railroads  an  1  river. 
In  an  early  day  nothing  could  be 
sent  to  market  but  such  things  as 
could  walk.  Ox  teams  were  used  up 
to  1.S6G,  when  everybody  com- 
menced to  use  horses  for  teaming. 
This  hauling  got  to  be  so  extensive 
and  costly  that  there  was  a  general 
demand  for  a  railroad.  An  act 
passed  the  legislature  and  was  ap- 
proved March  7th,  1867,  incorporat- 
ing  the   Murphysboro   and    Shawnee- 


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town  Railroad  company,  and  in 
1S6S  a  petition  signed  by  mil  voters 
as  required  by  said  act,  was  filed 
with  the  County  Clerk,  asking  the 
court  to  submit  a  proposition  of  vot- 
ing a  subscription  of  $100,000  to 
the  capital  stock  of  the  said  com- 
pany to  the  legal  voters  of  the  coun- 
ty. Speakers  went  out  over  the 
county  during  the  canvass,  and'  the 
people  were  led  to  believe  that  they 
were  taking  stock  in  a  railroad  com- 
pany on  which  they  would  annually 
draw  a  dividend  more  than  suffi- 
cient to  pay  the  interest  on  the 
bonds  of  the  county.  On  the  3rd 
day  of  November,  186S,  the  propo- 
sition was  voted  upon  and  resulted 
in  1779  votes  for  and  lOS  against 
the  subscription.  On  the  12th  day 
of  December,  1860,  the  court  made 
an  order  that  the  subscription 
should  be  paid  in  the  bonds  of  the 
county  running  20  years,  bearing 
interest  at  the  rate  of  S  per  cent. 
per  annum,  payable  annually  at  the 
office  of  the  County  Treasurer.  But 
said  bonds  were  not  to  be  issued, 
bear  date,  draw  interest  or  be  de- 
livered until  the  road  was  completed 
and  the  cars  running  on  the  same 
from  Carbondale  to  Marion,  pro- 
vide 1,  If  the  road  was  not  completed 
by  the  1st  day  of  January,  1870, 
this  subscription  was  to  be  void.  In 
the  same  order  is  found  this  lan- 
guage: 

"Whereas  the  County  of  William- 
son has  this  day  subscribed  $100,- 
000  to  the  capital  stock  of  the  Mur- 
physboro  and  Shawneetown  Rail- 
road Company:  Now,  therefore,  for 
the    purpose     of    securing    the     con- 


struction and  early  completion  of 
said  road,  that  said  County  enter 
into  an  agreement  with  the  M,  & 
S.  R.  R.  Co.,  and  that  said  County 
in  and  by  said  agreement,  sell  to 
said  company  the  $100,000  stock. 
That  the  towns  of  said  sale  and 
agreement  shall  be  in  effect  as  fol- 
lows: That  when  the  certificate  of 
stock  shall  have  been  issued  by  said 
Company  to  said  county,  the  said 
County,  after  the  said  road  shall 
have  been  completed,  and  within 
ten  days  after  said  Railroad  Com- 
pany    shall     have     issued     to     said 


county  the  certificates  of  stock  for 
said  $100,000,  assign,  transfer  and 
set  over  to  said  Company  the  cer- 
tificate for  said  $100,000  stock  so 
issued  to  saii  county  for  the  con- 
sideration of  $5,000,  to  be  paid  to 
said  county  at  the  time  of  said 
transfer  and  assignment  in  the 
hands  of  said  county  issued  to  said 
company,  in  payment  cf  the  sub- 
scription." 

On  the  12th  day  of  December, 
1SG8,  Jesse  Bishop  and  Addison 
Reece  on  behalf  of  the  county,  and 
Samuel    Dunoway,    as    President     of 


•A   Little  Fun   on    the  Fair  Ground:- 


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BIRDS-EYE    VIEW    OF    MARION     LOOKING    WEST. 


the  M.  &  S.  R.  R.  Company,  en- 
tered into  a  contract  in  pursuance 
of  the  above  order,  to  sell  the  stock. 
It  was  recorded  at  the  December 
Special  Term  of  the  County  Court. 
This  contract  was  drawn  up  by 
Jesse  Bishop.  They  did  not  claim 
to  have  any  authority  from  the 
people  tor  making  this  infamous 
contract,  because  they  give  as  their 
reason  for  making  it  for  securing 
the  construction  and  early  comple- 
tion of  said  road.  They  did  not 
make  it  in   compliance  with  any  law 


or  vote  of  the  people.  It  has  since 
been  urged  as  an  excuse  for  the 
sale  that  it  was  best  for  the  county, 
that  the  Railroad  Company  would 
have  closed  out  the  stock  by  mort- 
gage bonds,  an:l  the  county  would 
have  gotten  nothing.  That  might 
be  a  good  reason  to  give  at  this  day, 
but  I  have  copied  the  motives  above, 
which  actuated  the  Court  in  its  ac- 
tion at  the  time. 

An  act  passed  the  legislature  and 
was  approved  March  10,  1S69,  to 
change    the    name    of     the    Murphys- 


Fair    Cliuiinds  at   Marion,   111. 
and  Judge's  Stand. 


Amphitheater 


boro  and  Shawneetown  Railroad  Co. 
to  that  of  the  Carbondale  &  Shaw- 
nee Railroad  Co.,  and  to  make  valid 
the  subscription  and  contract  of  sale 
of  the  County  Court.  By  this  act 
it  was  declared  that  the  County 
Court  should,  on  the  completion  of 
the  road  to  Marion,  set  over  and 
transfer  the  certificates  of  stock  to 
the  Railroad  Company  without  the 
payment  of  the  $5,000  or  any  sum. 
The  act  further  provided  that  the 
interest  on  the  bonds  should  be  paid 
semi-annually  in  New  York,  in  place 
of  at  the  County  Treasurer's  office. 
It  was  contended  in  the  Railroad 
suit  described  hereafter,  that  this 
act  was  unconstitutional,  as  being 
ex  post  facto  and  impairing  the  ob- 
ligation   of    contracts. 

On  the  2  4th  day  of  December, 
1S70,  there  was  an  order  made  by 
the  court,  extending  the  time  for 
the  completion  of  the  M.  &  S.  R.  R. 
to  the  first  day  of  January,  1S72, 
and  also  extending  the  time  for  the 
completion  of  a  Railroad  from  Car- 
bondale to  Marion  to  the  same 
time.  It  was  contracted  in  the  suit 
that  the  County  Court  here  recog- 
nized two  railroad  companies,  and 
that  the  giving  the  bonds  to  the  lat- 
ter that  were  voted  for  the  former 
was  not  valid.  It  was  also  contend- 
ed by  the  counsel  in  said  suit  that 
if  the  act  of  March  1st,  1S69,  was 
constitutional,  it  limited  the  time 
of  the  completion  of  said  road  to 
the  1st  day  of  January,  1S71,  and 
it  being  an  amended  charter  could 
not  be  changed  only  by  legislature. 
At   the  July  special   term,   1871,  the 


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ARTHUR    A 
Editor  of 

court  adopted  the  form  of  a  bond  to 
be  issued  to  the  coaipany.  At  this 
same  term,  July  24,  the  court,  with 
Spain  as  Judge,  made  an  order,  af- 
ter reciting  all  the  acts  of  the  leg- 
islature and  the  previous  orders  of 
this  court,  and  reaffirming  the  sub- 
scription, that  the  County  Clerk 
should  procure  one  hundred  bonds 
of  one  thousand  dollars  each,  and 
that  on  presentation  of  the  certifi- 
cates of  stock  by  the  company,  the 
bonds  should  be  issued  and  placed 
in  the  hands  of  James  W.  Samuels, 
as  trustee,  to  hold  until  the  road 
was  completed. 

On  this  same  day  the  Carbondale 
&  Shawneetown  Railroad  Company 
entered  into  contract  with  E.  C. 
Dawes  &  Co.,  to  build  said  road. 
On  the  4th  day  of  September,  1871, 
the  Court,  after  reciting  the  order 
of  July  2  4th,  which  stated  that  the 
bonds  should  bear  date  of  January 
1st,  1872,  made  an  order  that  the 
bonds  should  be  prepared  in  blank 
and  bear  date  from  the  completion 
of  the  road,  as  they  expected  to 
have  It  completed  before  that  date. 
Most  people  supposed  that  only 
$50,000  worth  of  stock  would  be 
taken  when  the  road  was  completed 
to    Marion,     and    but     few    of     them 


ROBERTS, 
Leader. 

knew  anything  about  the  contract  of 
sale,  Init  it  had  leaked  out  by  the 
1st  of  November,  1871.  There  was 
considerable    talk    of     an    injunction 


to  keep  the  court  from  issuing  the 
bonds.  The  work  on  the  road  was 
progressing  rapidly,  and  Walter  P. 
Hanchett,  the  agent  of  E.  C. 
Dawes  &  Co,,  became  very  uneasy, 
and  on  Sunday,  November  6,  1871, 
he  sent  out  a  special  messenger  to 
bring  in  the  County  Court.  They 
came  in  the  next  morning  and  were 
set  upon  all  that  day  by  Hanchett 
and  his  friends  to  sign  the  bonis 
and  place  them  in  the  hands  of  a 
trustee  to  avoid  the  intended  in- 
junction  from   the  citizens. 

Judge  Spain  and  Associate  Justice 
Holland  were  opposed  to  issuing  the 
Ijonds  until  the  road  was  completed, 
but  Manier  was  for  signing  them. 
About  dark  on  Monday,  the  7th, 
Hanchett  and  his  friends  got  the 
court  together  in  a  room  over  Good- 
all  and  Campbell's  store,  and  tried 
every  way  to  get  the  bonds  signed. 
About  12  o'clock  in  the  night  some 
one  told  Hanchett  to  send  for  R. 
M.  Hundley,  that  he  could  get  the 
court  to  act.  Hundley  was  sent  for 
and  when  he  came  up  town  he  went 
to  the  Lancier  Hotel  where  Han- 
chett met  him  and  told  him  what 
was  up,  and  that  his  assistance  was 
urgently  solicited,  Hundley  told 
him  he  would  let  him  know  in  from 
thirty  to  sixty  minutes,  Hundley 
then  went  over  and  had  a  talk  with 
the  court,  and  then  went  back  and 
asked  Hanchett  what  it  was  worth 
to  him  to  have  those  bonds  signed 
that  night.  He  said,  one  thousand 
dollars.  He  then  drew  a  draft  on 
the  Carbondale  bank  and  left  Hund- 
ley, who  immediately  went  home. 
The  court  signed  the  bonds  that 
night'  and  delivered  them  to  W.  N. 
Mitchell  as  trustee,  the  first  giving 
$100,00(1  bond  for  their  delivery 
when  called   for. 


Encampment    of   Union    Veterans   Union     at    Grand     Reunion    at     Marion 
August,    1904. 


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S()l-\E.\]K  (»]■    WILLIAMSON   Q^UNTY,  ILLLNOIS. 


S.  K.  CASEY, 
Editor   and    Publisher    of    Marion    Evening 
Post  and    the    Egj'ptian    Press.      Casey    & 
Felts,   Proprietors. 


J.   H.   FELTS, 
Of  the  Egyptian  Publishing  Company. 


These  County  Judges  were  not 
bribed,  as  would  seem  from  this 
story,  because  they  are  honest,  con- 
scientious men,  neither  did  Hundley 
attempt  to  bribe  them.  He  simply 
got  $1,000  to  use  his  influence. 
That  they  ought  not  to  have  signed 
the  bonds  when  they  did  was  plain, 
hut  it  was  an  undue  influence  and 
not  corruption.  Mitchell  deposited 
the  bonds  in  the  bank  at  Spring- 
field,    and     at     the     December     ad- 


journed term,  1871,  the  President 
and  Directors  of  the  Railroad  re- 
ported to  the  court  their  acceptance 
of  the  road  as  complete  from  the 
contractors,  E.  C.  Dawes  &  Co.,  and 
the  court  ordered  the  bonds  to  be 
delivered  to  the  company,  and  re- 
ceived the  certificates  of  stock  of 
1100,000.  On  Sunday,  January  14, 
IS 72,  five  car  loads  of  iron  were 
l)rought  to  Marion,  and  on  Monday, 
the    15th,   the   last   rail    was   laid   on 


FISHERS    OF   FISH. 
(Not   Men-fishers.) 


the  track,  but  the  cars  had  been  run- 
ning to  Marion  for  some  time  be- 
fore. 

At  the  special  term,  being  the 
24th  day  of  January,  1872,  the 
court  made  an  order  authorizing 
the  County  Clerk  to  assign  and 
transfer  the  certificates  of  stock 
held  by  the  county  in  the  C.  &  S. 
Ry.  Company  to  E.  C.  Dawes  &  Co., 
of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  excepting  $10,- 
000  of  the  stock,  which  was  to  be 
held  by  the  clerk  until  the  Rail- 
road Company  should  have  the 
road  completed  to  Crab  Orchard,  in 
this  county,  and  by  the  contract  the 
railroad  company  was  to  pay  $5,- 
0  00  for  the  certificates  in  the  bonds 
issued  by  the  county  in  payment  of 
the  subscription,  and  if  they  had 
done  so  there  would  have  been  only 
$9.5,000  in  bonds  outstanding.  But 
they  paid  it  in  money,  or  at  least 
settled  $5,000  of  interest  on  the 
$100,000  in  bonds.  The  $10,000 
of  certificates  are  still  in  possession 
of  the  county  clerk,  and  we  pay  an- 
nually $8,000  interest  and  another 
$1,000  for  collecting  and  disbursing 
it.  At  the  March  term  of  the  Cir- 
cuit Court,  1873,  a  bill  for  an  in- 
junction and  relief  was  filed  by 
George  Bulliner,  W.  M.  Hindman, 
Henry  Williams,  George  W.  Sisney, 
Robert  M.  Allen  and  F.  M.  Maxey. 
The  injunction  was  granted  by  the 
Master  in  Chancery  and  stopped  the 
Sheriff  from  collecting  the  Railroad 
taxes  and  the  State  Treasurer  from 
paying  the  interest  on  the  bonds. 
This    case    created    a    great    deal     of 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


65 


EUGENE   F.   BOXES, 
Managing  Editor  Egyptian   Press. 


anxiety.  The  case  was  decided  by 
Judge  Crawfor'  against  the  com- 
plainants, and  a  judgment  of  $1,000 
given  against  them  for  Attorneys' 
fees.  An  appeal  was  taken  to  the 
Supreme  court  and  the  judgment 
below   affirmed. 

The  Carbondale  &  Shawneetown 
Railroad  is  IT  'miles,  2..5G0  feet 
long,  from  Carbondale  to  Marlon, 
and  cost  $583,4  0  7.12,  and  has  a 
funded  and  unfunded  debt  of  $2  7.5,- 
890.15.  For  the  year  ending  June 
30,  1875,  it  transportel  38,959 
tons  of  freight.  The  road  has  been 
honestly  and  fairly  operated  and 
has     been    a     great     benefit    to     our 


TrDDT 


MARION   EGYPTIAN    PRESS,    OUTSIDE. 


THREE  LITTLE  DIAMONDS. 
"They  look  like  three  little  diamonds,"  said  a  Jewish 
lady  of  Los  Angeles  when  she  saw  the  three  bright  boys 
shown  in  the  accompanying  cut.  They  are  Percy,  Teddy  and 
Frank,  the  sons  of  E.  F.  Bones,  managing  editor  of  the 
Marion  Evening  Post,  aged  6,  4  and  2  years,  respectively. 
They  are  natural  born  artists, having  inherited  the  talent 
from  their  papa.  The  drawings  surrounding  their  picture 
were  made  by  Percy,  the  oldest,  who  occupies  the  central 
position  in  the  group.  Teddy  can  draw  almost  equally  as 
well,  and  even  two-year-old  Frank  can  outline  a  locomo- 
tive. Having  lost  their  mamma,  who  died  in  Los  Angeles 
last  November,  the  little  fellows  are  separated.  Percy,  the 
oldest  being  in  Marion  with  Grandpa  and  Grandma  Bones, 
Teddy,  the  second,  with  Grandpa  and  Grandma  Tate  in  Tex- 
as, and  Frank,  the  baby,  having  a  good  home  with  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  I.  M.  Walker,  in  Carterville.  They  learned  to  talk 
early,  and  have  never  been  afflicted  with  "baby  talk," 
having  used  good  English  from  the  beginning.  They  never 
fail  to  attract  attention  wherever  they  go  by  their  bright 
ways  and  civil  manners.  "He  talks  like  a  man,"  is  an  ex- 
pression often  made  about  each  of  them. 
This  picture  is  a  snapshot  taken  on  the 
court  house  lawn  at  El  Paso,  Tex.,  and 
although  it  was  in  the  winter  time,  the 
sun  was  a  little  too  bright  for  the  baby's 
eyes. 


county,  but  it  is  not  right  in  prin- 
ciple for  a  majority  to  force  the 
unwilling  minority  to  contribute  to 
the  building  up  of  a  private  person 
or  corporation.  It  is  right  in  pub- 
lic matters,  but  in  private  concerns, 
their  own  consent  ought  to  be  ob- 
tained to  make  them  partners  or 
contributors. 

The  present  status  of  the  road 
and  its  history  subsequent  to  the 
date  of  the  above  account  seems  to 
be  about   as  follows: 

The  road  was  never  completed  by 
the  company  beyond  Marion,  but  in 
1S8S  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre 
Haute  Railroad  Company  bought  it 
and    completed    it   to    Paducah.    Ky., 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   C  )UNTV.   ILLI\0!S. 


DICKSON  B.  WARD, 
Deceased. 


""^ — ~-  nijii^ 


and  in  1S9S  the  Illinois  Central 
purchased  it.  So  it  has  become  a 
branch  of  that  great  system,  and  a 
very  important  feeder  to  its  coal 
and  general  passenger  and  freight 
traffic.  It  has  built  a  branch  from 
Carterville  to  Herrin,  with  spurs  to 
the  principal  mines,  and  has  greatly 
Improved  its  road  bed  the  whole 
length    of    the    line. 

About  eight  years  ago,  by  a  vote 
of  the  county,  the  bonds  were  re- 
funded at  4  per  cent.,  and  payment 
was  begun  at  the  rate  of  $5,000  an- 
nually. The  interest  is  kept  up 
and  $40,000  has  been  paid  on  the 
principal. 


The  Bench  and  Bar 

of  Williamson  County. 
By  Judge  Cieo.  W.  Young. 


BY  act  of  the  Legislature  approved 
January  7,  1835,  the  State 
was  divided  into  five  (5)  Judicial 
Circuits.  Williamson  (then  Frank- 
lin) was  in  the  first  circuit,  but  we 
have  no  records  of  courts  being  held 
in  this  County  prior  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  County  Seat,  Ma- 
rion, August   20,    1839.    The  records 


C.   &  E.  I.  RAILROAD  BRIDGE, 
miles    south    of    Marion.      Crossing     the      Saline     Creek.       Height 


show  that  Samuel  D.  Lockwood, 
William  Brown,  Jeptha  Hardin,  held 
court  in  and  for  the  County  of 
Franklin  prior  to  1840.  After  the 
division  (1840)  Walter  B.  Scatese 
and  Sidney  Breese  held  the  courts 
prior   and    up    to    September,    1848. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  consti- 
tution of  1848  the  following  judges 
held  the  circuit  court  while  Wil- 
liamson County  was  in  the  third  cir- 
cuit: Wm.  A,  Denning,  Wm.  K.  Par- 
rish,  Alexander  M.  Jenkins  and  Jno. 
H.  Mulkey.  By  act  of  the  Legisla- 
ture, approved  January  15,  1859, 
the  State  was  redistricted  and  Wil- 
liamson County  was  put  in  the  26th 
Judicial  Circuit.  From  that  time  to 
18  73  the  following  named  Judges 
held  the  Circuit  Court  of  this  Coun- 
ty: Willis  Allen,  William  Joshua, 
Allen  and   Andrew  D.   Duff. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  consti- 
tution of  1870,  and  by  act  of  the 
Legislature  approved  March  2  8, 
1873,  Williamson  County  was  placed 
in  the  2  5th  Judicial  Circuit,  and 
Monroe  C.  Crawford  was  elected 
Judge  June  2,  1873,  for  the  term  of 
six  (G)  years.  But  by  the  act  of 
March  10,  1877,  the  State  was  di- 
vided into  thirteen  (13)  circuits, 
and  Williamson  was  placed  in  the 
first  circuit,  and  this  same  act  pro- 
vided for  the  election  of  three  (3) 
Judges  after  the  first  Monday  in 
June,  1879,  and  provided  also  for 
the  election  of  one  additional  judge 
to  hold  until  the  regular  election  on 
the  first  Monday  of  June,  187  9.  Ac- 
cordingly John  Dougherty,  of  Jones- 
boro,  was  elected  August  20,  1877, 
to  serve  until  June  2,  1879.  Fol- 
lowing said  election  David  J.  Baker, 
Monroe  C.  Crawford  and  John 
Dougherty  were  the  three  (3) 
Judges  for  the  tripple  consolidated 
first  circuit  until  the  re.gular  elec- 
tion,   first   Monday   in   June,    1879. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLVOIS. 


67 


REV.  J.  J.   TATUM. 
Pastor   of    the   Free   Baptist    Church. 


MR.    SAMUEL   DUNAWAY. 

Chief     Bookkeeper     for     the     Frisco 

System    Ry..    Danville,   Illinois. 


.J.    .M.    BRADLEY. 
Farmer. 


Sidney  Breese,  one  of  the  Judges 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  died  sudden- 
ly at  Mt.  Vernon,  while  holding 
court,  June  28,  1878,  and  on  July 
9,  1878,  David  J.  Baker  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Governor,  from  the 
Circuit  Bench,  to  fill  the  vacancy  on 
the  Supreme  Bench  caused  by  the 
death  of  Judge  Breese. 

August  27,  1878,  Governor  Cul- 
lom  appointed  Oliver  A.  Marker  Cir- 
cuit Judge  to  fill  the  vacanc>;  on  the 
Circuit  Bench,  caused  by  the  ap- 
pointment of  David  J.  Baker  to  the 
Supreme  Bench. 

June  2,  1S79,  occurred  the  first 
regular  election  under  the  three   (3) 


Judge  System.  At  this  election 
David  J.  Baker,  Daniel  M.  Brown- 
ing and  Oliver  A.  Harker  were 
elected  to  serve  six  years.  Under 
this  three  Judge  law  it  became  the 
duty  of  the  three  Juiges  to  meet 
in  conference  and  assign,  or  lay  out, 
the  work  each  had  to  do.  As  there 
has  been  no  change  in  the  system  of 
assignments  since  the  act  of  187  7, 
and  no  Judge  ever  having  been  per- 
manently assigned  to  hold  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  in  Williamson  County, 
the  history  of  the  Circuit  Bench  is 
the  history  of  the  election  and  ser- 
vice of  the  Judges  who  have  been 
elected    since    June,    1S79. 


COAL   BELT   BOTTLEIXG    CO'S    FACTORY. 
Morrison   &  Willeford,   Proprietors. 


At  the  election  held  June  1st, 
1SS5,  David  J.  Baker,  Oliver  A. 
Harker  and  Robert  \V.  McCartney 
were  elected  to  serve  for  a  term  of 
six  years.  These  Judges  alternated 
irregularly  in  holding  court  in 
Williamson    County. 

At  the  election  June  4,  1888, 
David  J.  Baker  was  elected  to  the 
Supreme  Bench,  vice  John  H.  Mul- 
key  whose  term  expired. 

November  6,  1888,  George  W. 
Young  was  elected  Circuit  Judge  to 
fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  elec- 
tion of  David  J.  Baker  to  the  Su- 
preme Court. 

June  1st.  1891,  at  the  regular 
election,  Oliver  A.  Harker,  Joseph 
P.  Roberts  and  Alonzo  K.  Vickers 
were  elected  for  the  full  term  of 
six  years. 

June  7.  1897,  Oliver  A.  Harker, 
Alonzo  K.  Vickers  and  Joseph  P. 
Robarts  were  elected  for  the  full 
term  of  six  years. 

June  1st,  1903,  Warren  W.  Dun- 
can. Alonzo  K.  Vickers  and  Joseph 
P.  Robarts  were  elected  for  the 
full  term  of  six  years. 

Joseph  P.  Robarts  died  after  a 
long  and  painful  illness  at  San 
Diego.   California.   October   20,   1903. 

At  a  special  election  held  Decem- 
ber 12,  190  3,  William  N.  Butler 
was  elected  Circuit  Judge  for  the 
unexpired  time  of  Jos.  P.  Robarts, 
deceased. 

The  present  presiding  Judges  for 
this,  first  Judicial  Circuit,  are  War- 
ren W.  Duncan,  of  Marion:  Alonzo 
K.  Vickers.  Vienna:  William  N. 
Butler,  Cairo,  and  they  alternate  in 
holding  Circuit  Court  in  this 
County,  as  has  been  the  custom  for 
the  last  2  8  years.  Their  terms  will 
expire  June   7,    1909. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON    O  )rNTV.   ILLINOIS. 


MAJOR  JAMES  D.   McCOWN, 
Deceased. 


MRS.    MARGARET   SHERERTZ, 
Aged   SG. 


MRS.    CENA    A.    McCOWN, 
Wife  of  James  D.  McCown. 


County  ludgcs  and   jfudgcs    of 
the  County  Court. 

Prior  to  1S72  the  office  of  County 
Judge  was  not  regarded  with  the 
same  degree  of  importance  that  it 
has  been  since  that  date.  Up  to 
1S73  the  County  Judge,  with  two 
other  officers,  called  associate  jus- 
tices, constituted  the  County  Board, 
and  did  all  the  county  business,  the 
County  Judge  doing  probate  busi- 
ness also.  Since  1S73  county  busi- 
ness has  been  given  to  three  County 
Commissioners. 

By  act  of  1S72  the  County  Couri 
was  given  common  law  jurisdiction 
in  civil  actions  to  the  extent  of 
$1,000,   and   criminal   jurisdiction  of 


misdemeanors,  in  addition  to  pro- 
bate jurisdiction. 

The  first  county  judge  after  the 
division  in  1S40  was  William  H. 
Eubanks,  then  David  Norman,  Isaac 
M.  Lewis,  Jesse  Bishop  and  James 
M.   Spain. 

At  the  election  in  1S73,  being  the 
first  election  under  the  new  consti- 
tution and  the  new  law,  Jesse 
Bishop  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
County  Court,  which  had  become  a 
court  of  considerable  importance. 
At  the  election  in  IS 77  George  W. 
Young  was  elected  County  Judge; 
at  the  election  in  1SS2  James  W. 
Washburn  was  elected;  in  IS  86 
Warren  W.  Duncan  was  elected;  in 
1890  Lorenzo  D.  Hart  well  was  elect- 


ed, and  again  in  1894;  in  1S98 
Wiley  K.  Slater  was  elected;  in 
19  02  Rufus  Neeley,  the  present  in- 
cumbent, was  elected.  All  the  seven 
men  who  have  filled  the  position  of 
County  Judge  since  1S7  3  have  been 
praciiciiig  licensed  lawyers 


iv,  ,.>o  ul     .HE   OLD   COURT   HOUSE. 
Burned   May   30,    1875.      It  stood   at   the  southeast  corner  of  the  square. 
All  the  houses  to  the  west  of  it  as  far     as    South     Market    Street     were 
also  burned.   Loss,  $25,000. 


prosecuting  Httorncys  and 
States  Httomeya. 

Prior  to  1872  the  prosecuting  at- 
torneys or  public  prosecutors  were 
elected  in  the  same  territory  of  the 
Circuit  Judges  and  went  with  the 
Circuit  Judges  to  attend  Court  in 
the  different  Counties  composing 
the  Circuit.  Among  the  early  Pros- 
ecuting Attorneys  were  Edward  V. 
Pearce,  John  A.  Logan,  John  M. 
Clementson,  Chas.  N.  Damron  and 
Francis   M.    Youngblood. 

This  brings  us  up  to  the  change 
in  the  statute  and  the  provision  of 
the  constitution  of  1S70,  and  the 
act  of  the  Legislature  approved 
March  2  2,  1872,  which  provided 
that  one  States  Attorney  should  be 
elected  at  the  general  election  to  be 
held  November  5,  18  7  2,  in  each 
county  in  the  state  and  every  four 
years  thereafter.  The  names  and 
date  of  election  of  the  States  Attor- 
neys for  this,  Williamson,  County, 
since   1872   are  as  follows: 

John  D.  P.  Jennings,  1872;  Jos- 
eph W.  Hartwell,  in  1875,  to  fill 
the  unexpired  time  of  Jennings; 
Joseph  W.  Hartwell,  1S76;  William 
W.  Clemens,  188  0;  Geo.  W.  Young, 
1SS4;  Jesse  Bishop,  1SS8;  John  W. 
Peebles,  1892;  Richmond  R.  Fowl- 
er, 1896;  Lorenzo  D.  Hartwell, 
1900;  Richmond  R.  Fowler,  1904, 
all  of  them  lawyers  in  good  practice 
and  men  of  considerable  legal 
ability. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


«9 


KARL    WOLF, 
Journeyman    Merchant    Tailor. 


W.    J.    WALKER, 
Alderman   2nd   Ward. 


ED    SPILLER, 
Attorney   at    Law. 


The  following  named  attorneys 
who  formerly  resided  in  Williamson 
County,  an  1  practiced  before  the 
Courts  in  said  County,  are  dead, 
but  their  names  are  inserted  in  this 
article  in  honor  of  their  memories; 
John  T.  Louden,  John  A.  Logan, 
Anderson  P.  Corder,  John  E.  Galla- 
gher, Willis  Allen,  George  W.  God- 
dard,  Jerome  B.  Calvert,  Joseph  H. 
Benson,  William  Joshua  Allen,  Jos- 
eph W.  Hartwell.  Jesse  Bishop  and 
Milo   Ervin. 

The  following  are  the  names  of 
the  lawyers  composing  the  William- 
son County  Bar,  and  who  are  con- 
sidered   practitioners,    according     to 


the  age  and  the  length  of  service: 
William  W.  Clemens,  James  M. 
Washburn,  Lorenzo  D.  Hartwell, 
Geo.  W.  Young,  John  W.  Peebles, 
Geo.  W.  Pillow,  William  H.  War- 
der, Winfteld  C.  S.  Rhea,  John  C.  B. 
Smith,  EJ  M.  Spiller,  Geo.  B.  White, 
Wiley  F.  Slater,  Andrew  J.  Kimmel, 
Richmond  R.  Fowler,  John  E.  Carr, 
Charles  A.  Jochum,  John  A.  Treese, 
John  L.  Gallimore,  William  O.  Pot- 
ter, William  T.  Freeze,  Thos.  J. 
Youngblood,  Otis  H.  Burnett,  De- 
witt  T.  Hartwell,  Everett  E.  Deni- 
son,  Rufus  Neeley,  Archibald  C. 
Hentz,  Luther  E.  Robertson  and 
Robert   T.   Cook. 


The   City  of  Marion 


By  Geo.  W.  Young,  Attorney  at  Law 


THE  JORDAN  HOUSE. 
One  of  the  Oldest  in  Marlon.     Built  of   Hewn   Logs. 


BY  an  act  of  the  Legislature,  en- 
titled "An  Act  to  establish  the 
County  of  Williamson,"  approved 
February  2S,  IS 39,  it  was  provided 
that  Calvin  Bridges  of  Union  Co., 
Thornbury  C.  Anderson,  of  Galla- 
tin Co.,  and  Jefferson  Allen,  of 
Jackson  Co.,  were  appointed  Com- 
missioners to  locate  the  seat  of  jus- 
tice for  the  County  of  Williamson. 
These  Commissioners  were  to  meet 
at  the  town  of  Bainbridge,  and  after 
being  qualified,  they  were  directed 
to  proceed  to  locate  the  said  seat  of 
Justice  at  or  as  near  the  center  of 
the  County  as  an  eligible  site  con- 
taining twenty  acres  could  be  ob- 
tained by  donation  from  the  owner 
thereof,  in  accordance  with  said 
Act.  The  County  of  Franklin  was 
divided,  and  the  County  of  William- 
son established. 

On  the  Sth   day  of  October,    1839, 
the     Commissioners     to     locate     the 
County   seat  made   the   following   re- 
port: 
"STATE   OF   ILLINOIS, 

County  of  Williamson. 

We,  the  Commissioners,  appoint- 
ed by  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  of 
said  State  to  locate  the  County  Seat 
of  Williamson  County,  approved 
February  2  8,  1839,  have  agreed  on 
the  Southwest  corner  of  Section 
Eighteen  (IS),  Township  Nine  (9) 
Sctiith,  and  of  Range  No.  Three  (3) 
East  of  the  Third  Principal  Me- 
ridian line;  and  that  we  do  further 
agree     to     name     the     site     Marion. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


J.   H.   REYNOLDS, 
Deceased. 


MRS.     A.     C.     REYNOLDS. 
Proprietor    of    Commercial    Hotel. 


J.    W.    WILDER, 
Photographer. 


Given    under    our    hands    this    2  0th 
day  of  August,   1S39. 
Signed, 

CALVIN  BRIDGES, 

THORNBURY    C.    ANDERSON, 

JEFFERSON   ALLEN." 

On  the  same  day,  August  20, 
1839,  William  Benson  and  Bethany, 
his  wife,  deeded  as  a  gift  to  the 
County  the  West  half  of  the  South- 
west Fourth  of  the  Southwest  Quar- 
ter, Section  Eighteen  (IS),  Town- 
ship Nine  (9)  South,  Range  Three 
(3)  East  of  the  Third  Principal  Me- 
ridian line,  containing  2  0  acres, 
which  was  the  first  deed  record- 
ad   in     the     County     by   the     County 


Clerk,  who  was  then  the  recorder. 
Henry  W.  Perry,  a  surveyor,  was 
employed  October  16,  IS 3 9,  to  sur- 
vey and  plat  the  town  lots,  which 
are  known  as  the  Original  Survey 
of  the  City  of  Marion,  including  the 
Public  Square.  These  lots  were  or- 
dered to  be  sold  on  six,  twelve  and 
eighteen  months'  time  by  the  Sher- 
iff. The  sale  commenced  November 
17,  1839,  and  continued  for  three 
days.  At  this  sale  there  were 
thirty-eight  lots  sold  for  the  sum  of 
two  thousand  four  hundred  and 
forty-nine  dollars  and  fifty  cents 
($2  449.5  0)  to  the  persons  and  for 
the  prices  shown  in  the  following 
tabular  statement: 


Nahie.                        No. 

Lts. 

Amt. 

Sam'l.   H.   D.   Ryburn 

1    $ 

50 

00 

Sterling  Hill 

60 

00 

John  T.  Davis 

111 

00 

William  Benson 

113 

00 

Daniel  R.   Pulley 

93 

00 

Joab   Goodall 

67 

00 

J.   T.   and  T.   D.   Davis 

100 

00 

F.  F.  Duncan 

116 

00 

John  G.   Sparks 

78 

00 

Dempsey   Odum 

80 

00 

John  Davis 

131 

00 

A.  T.  Benson 

150 

00 

E.  C.  Spiller 

114 

00 

William    Benson 

102 

00 

William   L.   Benson 

161 

25 

J.  B.   Freeman 

96 

00 

John   D.   Sanders 

68 

00 

John   Davis 

70 

50 

Geo.  W.   Binkley 

50 

00 

John   D.   Sanders 

5  0 

00 

Henry    Sanders 

30 

00 

W.    K.    Spiller 

63 

50 

James  Hill 

90 

25 

Elijah   Mooneyham 

41 

00 

Henry    Robertson 

76 

00 

John   Simpson 

66 

00 

Sterling   Hill 

30 

00 

John   D.    Sanders 

2 

37 

00 

William   Burns 

2 

51 

00 

Junior   Meredith 

2 

51 

00 

G.   W.   Binkley 

1 

30 

00 

Willis  Allen 

1 

23 

00 

FIRST    SIOiiK    i.\ 
F.    M.    Westbrook    &    Co's    Store,   built 
then   moved   and   rebuilt  of  brick   in    189  3 


.\JAKI(I.\, 

in     1S76.      Used    until     1893, 
Now   The   New   York    Store. 


Total  38.  $2449    50 

The  sale  of  the  lots  was  one  of 
the  first  sources  of  revenue  to  the 
County,  and  the  aggregate  consti- 
tuted a  liberal  sum  with  which  to 
defray  the  cost  of  the  construction 
of  the  public   buildings. 

The  first  buildings  erected  were  a 
clerk's  office  and  the  jail.  The 
clerk's  office  was  built  on  the  Pub- 
lic Square  early  in  the  year  1S40  by 
Gabriel  Sanders,  who  took  the  con- 
tract for  $108.00,  and  the  first  term 
of    Court    was   held   in   this   building 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOLS. 


71 


F.  M.  GOODALL,  Capitalist. 


MRS.    F.    M.    GOODALL. 


F.    L.    NAXCE.    Merchant. 


beginning  May  4,  1S40.  The  con- 
tract for  the  jail  was  let  to  Squire 
Howell  for  $3  35.00  on  the  Sth  day 
of  January,  1S40.  It  was  a  log 
house,  and  stood  where  the  jail  now 
stands,  being  Lot  No.  Two  (2).  in 
Block  No.  Eight  (8)  in  the  Original 
Survey  or  plat  of  the  town  of  Ma- 
rion. This  building  was  used  as  a 
County  jail  until  1865,  when  the 
second  jail  was  erected  by  Robert 
M.  Hundley,  contractor,  for  $9,000 
on  the  same  lot.  Its  dimensions 
were  20x44  feet  square  and  two 
stories  high;  the  Walls  of  the'  first 
story  were  of  brick  and  were  IS  in- 
ches in  thickness;  the  walls  of  the 
second  story  consisted  of  nine  in- 
ches of  brick  on  the  outside  and  of 
timbers  squared  8x10  inches  on  the 
inside,  the  floor  and  ceiling  being 
made  of  these  timbers  also.  This 
building  stood  until  November, 
1SS2,  when  it  was  consumed  by  Are. 
The  Courts  were  held  in  the 
building  erected  for  a  clerk's  office 
until  the  completion  of  the  first 
Court  House,  which  was  built  by 
John  Paschal,  began  in  1841,  and 
.-ompleted  in  1842.  It  was  a  two- 
story  brick  building  40  ft  x  40  ft., 
and  stood  on  the  Public  Square, 
and  cost  the  County  $3500.00.  This 
building  was  used  for  the  Court 
House  and  County  offices  until 
1859,  when  it  was  removed  and  the 
brick  was  used  in  building  the 
brick  house  which  now  stands  on 
the  Brooks'  farm,  three  miles  north- 
west of  Marion.  In  185  8  a  new 
Court  House  was  erected  by  Col. 
R.  M.  Hundley,  the  contractor,  on 
Lot  Two  (2),  Block  Five  (5)  of  the 
Original  Survey  of  the  town,  being 
the  site  where  H.  M.  Parks'  build- 
ing now  is.  This  building  was  also 
a  two-story  brick  structure,  being 
about  5  0x7  0  ft.  square,  with  a  hall 
and   stairs.   County  offices    and    jury 


rooms  on  the  first  floor  and  the 
Court  Room  on  the  second.  Col. 
Hundley,  the  contractor,  received 
$7700.0  0  in  County  orders,  bearing 
eight  per  cent,  interest  from  date 
until  paid,  and  $1800.00  in  cash 
from  the  Swamp  Land  Fund,  mak- 
ing $9500.00  in  all  which  he  re- 
ceived for  erecting  the  building.  He 
also  received  $245.00  for  painting 
it,  and  N.  B.  Calvert  was  paid  $305 
for  furnishing  the  Court  room. 
This  house  was  destroyed  by  fire 
May  3  0,  1875,  but  the  County 
records  were  all  saved,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  one  or  two  court  records. 
The  proposition  to  levy  and  col- 
lect a  special  tax  of  thirty-five  cents 
tor  each  one  hundred  dollars  of 
taxable  property  within  the  County, 
for  a  period  of  three  years,  to  raise 
a     sum     sufficient     to     build    a     new 


Court  House  was  submitted  to  the 
people  of  the  County  at  an  election 
held  November  2,  1880,  and  was 
carried  by  a  large  majority.  The 
present  Court  House  was  built  un- 
der the  supervision  of  Mr.  Isaac 
Rapp,  of  Carbondale,  who  was  em- 
ployed at  a  salary  of  $5.50  per  day 
to  superintend  the  planning  and 
building  of  the  house.  The  esti- 
mated cost  was  eighteen  thousand 
dollars,  and  it  was  finished  in  the 
summer   of    1889. 

The  Town  of  Marion  was  first 
chartered  by  Act  of  the  Legislature 
approved  February  2  4,  1841,  but  it 
seems  there  was  no  organization  or 
election  of  officers  under  this  Act, 
and  the  same  was  repealed  Febru- 
ary 15.  1847.  The  town  was  again 
chartered  by  Act  of  the  Legislature 
approved     February      16,      1865,     by 


ILLINOIS    CENTRAL    RAILROAD    DEPOT    AT    MARION,    ILLINOIS. 


S()L-\ENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


JOHN    W.    PEEBLES, 
Attorney    at    Law. 


PAUL   J.    SMITH, 
Local      organizer      Marion       Trades 
Council    and    district    organizer    of 
Labor   Unions   for   American   Fed- 
eration  of  Labor. 


DR.  C.  L.  WASHfeURN. 


which  said  Act,  it  is  provided  that 
the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Ma- 
rion, in  Williamson  County,  Hlinois, 
be,  and  they  are  hereby,  constituted 
a  body  politic  and  corporate  by  the 
name  and  style  of  the  "Town  of  Ma- 
rlon," and  by  that  name  shall  have 
perpetual  succession,  and  may  have, 
or  not  have,  a  common  seal,  which 
they  may  change,  alter  or  abolish  at 
pleasure.  The  corporate  limits  of 
the  Town  of  Marion  shall  embrace 
a  territory  of  one  mile  square  ex- 
tending one-half  mile  East,  West, 
North  and  South  of  the  Public 
Square  in  said  town.  The  munici- 
pal government  of  the  town  shall 
consist  of  a  president  and  six  trus- 
tees    and     other   general     provisions 


vesting  corporate  authority  and 
power  in  the  municipal  authorities 
of  said  town.  Under  and  by  virtue 
of  the  authority  of  this  Charter,  at 
the  election  in  April,  1865,  Rev.  A. 
T.  Benson  was  elected  President, 
W.  P.  Goodall,  Wiley  W.  Hall,  Jas. 
M.  Edwards,  Jeremiah  Rice,  Oliver 
H.  Wiley  and  James  H.  Stewart 
were  elected  trustees.  This  City 
Board  adopted  and  approved  the 
first  code  of  orlinances  for  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  Town  of  Marion  May 
15,   1S65. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  present 
State  Constitution  in  187  0,  which 
prohibits  special  legislation,  the 
Legislature  passed  a  general  act  for 
the     incorporation    and     government 


C.  &  E.  I.  RAILROAD  DEPOT,    LOOKING   SOUTH. 


of  all  cities,  towns  and  villages,  and 
under  this  Act,  Marion  became  in- 
corporated as  a  City  under  the  gen- 
eral law  of  the  State  in  April,  1873, 
and  at  the  election  held  in  April, 
1874,  Jos.  W.  Hartwell  was  elected 
and  qualified  as  the  first  Mayor  of 
the  "City  of  Marion."  The  City  has 
been  under  the  organization  and 
powers  vested  in  cities,  towns  and 
villages  under  and  by  virtue  of  the 
authority  of  the  general  law  of  the 
State  granting  powers  to  cities, 
towns  and  villages  since  April,  1873. 
Prior  to  IS 72,  there  was  no  rail- 
road reaching  the  city  of  Marion, 
and  prior  to  1854,  there  was  no 
market  at  any  point  on  any  railroad 
accessible  to  the  citizens  of  Marion. 
In  this  latter  year  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad  was  completed,  run- 
ning from  Chicago  to  Cairo,  passing 
through  Carbondale,  eighteen  miles 
west  of  Marion. 

The  early  history  and  progress  of 
the  town  (now  City)  of  Marion  in- 
cludes many  novel  facts  and  condi- 
tions connected  with  the  life  and 
conduct  of  our  people  in  the  early 
days  of  the  City;  for  instance,  at  the 
time  the  City  was  located,  it  seems 
that  John  Davis,  more  familiarly 
known  as  "Bone"  Davis,  owned  a 
log  house  located  near  the  center  of 
the  Square  where  the  Court  House 
now  stands.  As  soon  as  the  County 
was  organized,  he  immediately  ap- 
plied for  license  to  sell  whiskey, 
and  the  County  authorities  charged 
him  $25.00  license  for  one  year,  and 
the  Court  also  established  the  price 
at  which  liquor  should  he  sold,  as 
follows:  Whiskey,  12i4  cents  per 
one-half  pint;  brandy,  rum,  wine 
and  gin  each  IS.vJ  cents  per  one- 
half  pint;  cider  per  quart  12i/{ 
cents. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


73 


CITY    HALL    AND    MAHIOX    STATE    AND    SAVI  XGS    BANK. 


The  first  store  put  up  in  Marion 
was  by  Joshua  Mulkey  in  1S40;  the 
next  by  Robert  Hopper.  It  seems 
that  groceries,  as  they  were  called 
in  those  days  (they  are  called  sa- 
loons now)  were  always  plentiful  in 
the  early  days  of  the  history  of  Ma- 
rion, license  to  sell  liquor  varying 
from  $25.00  per  annum  in  1839  to 
$500.00  in  1864.  The  County  Com- 
missioners' Court  also  regulated  the 
charges  for  the  hotels. 

Prior  to  1901  the  Mayor  and  Al- 
dermen were  elected  by  the  popular 
vote  of  the  voters  of  the  City.  On 
the  14th  day  of  January,  1901,  the 
City  Council  passed  an  ordinance 
dividing  the  City  into  four  wards, 
making  the  four  main  streets  lead- 
ing East.  West.  North  and  South 
from  the  Public  Square  the  dividing 
lines. 

All  that  territory  lying  north  of 
West  Main  Street  and  west  of  North 
Market  Street,  being  the  Northwest 
Quarter  of  the  City,  is  designated  as 
Ward   Number   One    (1). 

All  that  part  of  the  territory  lying 
south  of  West  Main  Street  and  west 
of  South  Market  Street,  being  the 
Southwest  Quarter  of  the  City,  is 
designated   as   Ward   No.   Two    (2). 

All  that  part  of  the  territory  lying 
south  of  East   Main  Street   and  East 


of  South  Market  Street,  being  the 
Southeast  Quarter  of  the  City,  is 
designated   as   Ward  No.   Three    (3). 

All  that  part  of  the  territory  lying 
north  of  East  Main  Street  and  east 
of  North  Market  Street,  being  the 
Northeast  Quarter  of  the  City,  is 
designated   as  Ward   No.   Four    (4). 

With  the  opening  up  of  the  vast 
coal  fields  lying  adjacent  to  and  im- 
mediately North  and  Northwest  of 
the  City,  there  have  been  great  im- 
provements in  the  way  of  substan- 
tial buildings  and  sidewalks  and  the 
construction  of  an  Electric  Street 
Railway  leading  north  two  miles  to 
the  Spillertown  mines  and  west 
through  the  mining  district  to  Her- 
rin  and  Carterville.  The  population 
since  189C  has  almost  doubled.  It 
is  estimated  now  that  we  have  some- 
thing near  six  thousand  inhabitants 
within  the  corporate  limits  of  the 
city.  There  have  been  a  great  many 
new  additions  surveyed  and  at- 
tached to  the  Original  Plat,  so  that 
now  the  corporate  limits  extend 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  north, 
south  and  east  and  one  mile  west  of 
the  center  of  the  Public  Square,  em- 
bracing and  including  14S0  acres  of 
land. 

The  City  of  Marion  is  also  a 
noted    railroad    center,    Illinois    Cen- 


tral Railroad  passing  through  run- 
ning east  and  west,  the  C.  &  E.  I. 
(Frisco  System)  running  north  and 
south.  It  is  the  leading  market 
point  in  the  County,  in  fact,  it  is 
the  greatest  market  for  mules, 
horses  and  live  stock  of  any  point 
in   Southern   Illinois. 

W'e  have  an  extensive  telephone 
system,  electric  light  plant,  water 
works,  ice  and  cold  storage  plant, 
two  flouring  mills,  bottling  works, 
a  brick  plant  for  the  manufacture  of 
first-class  building  brick.  Marion 
is  also  headquarters  for  the  Egyp- 
tian Powder  Company,  three  of  the 
leading  coal  mines,  all  lines  of  gen- 
eral merchandise,  hardware,  furni- 
ture, farming  implements,  wagons, 
buggies,  harness,  family  groceries, 
are  represented  in  the  business  in- 
terests of  the  city.  We  have  not 
the  space  to  particularize,  but  we 
can  say  in  a  .general  way  that  there 
are  as  large  stores  and  business 
houses,  and  as  much  business  is 
done  in  the  commercial  line  as  in 
any  City  in  Southern  Illinois.  Large 
trains  of  cars  loaded  with  coal  leave 
the  City  every  day:  live  stock  and 
farm  products  going  to  distant  mar- 
kets continuously. 

We  venture  the  assertion  that 
there     is   not     another    city     in     the 


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daily  papers. 

Our  people,  as  a  rule,  are  honest, 
intelligent,  industrious  and  law 
abiding.  There  is  no  bonded  in- 
debtedness hanging  over  the  city, 
and  the  floating  debt  is  small,  the 
reveirue  from  taxation  and  license 
being  adequate  to  meet  all  liabili- 
ties. The  rate  of  taxation  is  as  low, 
if  not  lower,  than  any  city  of  its 
size    in   the   state. 

Taking  into  consideration  the 
wealth,  intelligence  and  progressive 
character  of  our  citizenship,  we 
have  every  reason  to  believe  that 
the  City  of  Marion  will  keep  and 
maintain  its  present  high  position, 
that  of  being  the  most  progressive 
and  best  governed  city  in  Southern 
Illinois. 


ANOTHER   VIEW   OF   C.    &   E.   I.   RAILROAD    DEPOT,    Looking    South. 
The    Electric    Belt    Line    Railroad   Crossing   in   the   Foreground. 


United  States  possessed  with  the 
school  facilities  that  Marion  is,  for 
the  reason  that  we  are  conducting 
our  public  schools  under  a  special 
charter  granted  by  Act  of  the  Leg- 
islature approved  February  16, 
1S57,  forty-seven  years  ago,  and  it 
embraces  six  whole  sections,  and 
one-fotirth  of  another  section,  of 
land,  running  one  mile  north  and 
one  mile  south  and  two  miles  east 
and  one  mile  and  a  half  west  of  the 
Public  Square,  containing  4000 
acres  of  land.  All  this  vast  wealth 
is  under  the  supervision  and  control 
of  the  Board  of  Education,  and  is 
governed  in  the  distribution  of  the 
school  funds  of  the  State  the  same 
as  in  other  common  school  districts 
that  are  operated  under  the  state 
school  law,  and  the  result  is  that 
the  inhabitants  of  the  City  of  Ma- 
rion get  the  benefit  of  an  academic 
high  school  course,  with  all  the 
modern  appliances  and  methods  of 
instruction  for  the  same  rate  of  tax- 
ation as  is  levied  for  the  purpose  of 
keeping  up  the  schools  in  the  coun- 
try districts  where  nothing  but  the 
common  branches  are  taught.  We 
have  two  large,  modern.  well- 
equipped  school  buildings  all  paid 
for,  and  only  a  few  days  ago,  the 
people  voted  to  purchase  another 
site  and  build  an  additional  build- 
ing in  the  Southwest  Quarter  of  the 
City,  which  will  probably  be  com- 
pleted the  present  year.  This  one 
feature  of  our  public  advantage  is 
quite  an  inducement  for  those  hav- 
ing children  to  educate  to  purchase 
property  and  become  residents  of 
our  city,  as  it  enables  them  to  give 
their  children  a  high  school  educa- 
tion at  a  very  small  expense  with- 
out sending  them  away  from  home. 
We  include  in  this  article  the 
names  of  all  the  Mayors  and  Alder- 


men that  have  held  positions  since 
the  city  assumed  corporate  author- 
ity in  February,  1SG5,  so  that  our 
readers  may  see  who  have  been  in- 
strumental in  enacting  and  enforc- 
ing the  laws  and  ordinances  govern- 
ing the  city  up  to  the  present  time. 
We  are  in  possession  of  wonder- 
ful natural  facilities,  such -as  fuel, 
light,  water,  good  markets,  first- 
class  transportation  to  all  the  lead- 
ing cities  and  markets  of  the  coun- 
try. We  have  six  churches,  all  well 
attended  and  in  a  prosperous  condi- 
tion, the  largest  and  best  managed 
Building  and  Loan  Association  in 
the  State.  We  are  well  supplied 
with  a  full  complement  of  Lawyers, 
Doctors,     Ministers     and     Teachers; 


City  Officers. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the 
Trustees,  Mayors  and  Aldermen  of 
(he  Town  and  City  of  Marion,  Illi- 
nois, from  A.  D.   1SG5  to  A.  D.  1904: 

1^65 — A.  T.  Benson,  President; 
W.  P.  Goodall,  Wiley  W.  Hall,  J.  M. 
Edwards,  Jeremiah  Rice,  O.  H.  Wi- 
ley, .7.   H.   Stewart,  Trustees. 

18C6 — R.  M.  Hundley,  President: 
O.  H.  Wiley,  J.  S.  Rice,  J.  M.  Ed- 
wards, A.  T.  Benson,  Wm.  Cook,  W. 
W.   Hall,   Trustees. 

ISGT — R.  M.  Hundley,  President; 
O.  H.  Wiley,  Wm.  Broad,  W.  W. 
Hall,  A.  T.  Benson.  Wm.  Cook,  S. 
W.   Dunaway,   Trustees. 

ISGS — R.  M.  Hun  ley.  President; 
A.  T.  Benson,  O.  H.  Wiley,  Samuel 
Cover,  S.  W.  Dunaway,  Wm.  Cook, 
Thomas    Davis,    Trustees. 

1SC9-^G.  V,'.  Goddard,  President: 
\.    B.    Calvert,   O.   H.   Wiley.   W.   W. 


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SOU\  EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


GEO.    C.    HEYDE    BLOCK. 
Noll    &   Williams,    Architects   and   Builders. 

This  firm,  brick  block  was  erected  by  Messrs.  Noll  and  Williams,  in  the  present  year,  at  a  total  cost  of 
$22,000.  It  is  a  two-story  and  basement  building,  and  one  of  the  most  substantial  structures  in  Marion  and 
complete  in  every  rletail.  The  front  is  of  pressed  brick  and  plate  glass,  with  iron  columns,  plate  and  gird- 
ers throughout.  The  lower  story  is  divided  into  three  large  stores,  the  center  one  being  largest  of  all, 
and  filled  by  Mr.  Hyde  himself  with  a  miscellaneous  stock  of  hardware,  hard  to  beat  in  this  County.  It 
is  lighted  by  electricity  and  fittei  with  an  up-to-date  freight  elevator.  All  the  plans  and  details  were  fur- 
nished   by   the   contractors   and    builders. 


Clemens,  C.  M.  Edwards.  J.  C.  Jack- 
son,  M.    W.   Robertson,   Trustees. 

1870 — G.  W.  Goddard,  President; 
O.  H.  Wiley,  N.  B.  Calvert,  M.  W. 
Robertson,  C.  M.  Edwards,  W.  P. 
Goodall,   S.   W.   Dunaway,  Trustees. 

1871 — G.  W.  Goddard.  President; 
O.  H.  Wiley.  N.  B.  Calvert,  S.  W. 
Dunaway,  M.  W.  Robertson.  Hardin 
Goo  "all,    C.    M.    Edwards,    Trustees. 

1872 — G.  W.  Goddard,  President: 
S.  W.  Dunaway,  O.  H.  Wiley,  M.  W. 
Robertson,  Hardin  Goodall,  N.  B. 
Calvert,  C.   M.   Edwards,  Trustees. 

1873 — W.  N.  Mitchell,  President; 
O.  H.  Wiley,  W.  H.  Howell,  J.  C. 
Jackson,  Hardin  Goodall,  C.  M.  Ed- 
wards,  S.    W.   Dunaway,   Trustees. 

187  4 — J.  W.  Hart  well.  Mayor; 
M.  W.  Robertson,  Hartwell  Hen- 
dricks, R.  M.  Allen,  John  M.  Young, 
C.  M.  Edwards,  A.  X.  Lodge.  Alder- 
men. 

1875 — W.  R.  Hall,  Mayor;  Jas.  C. 
Jackson,  C.  M.  Elwards,  Wm.  Hen- 
drickson,  Hartwell  Hendrickson,  J. 
M.   Young,   R.   M.    Allen,   Aldermen. 

187^ — G.  W.  Goddard,  Mayor;  C. 
M.  Edwards,  Wm.  Hendrickson,  Jas. 


C.  Jackson,  Jas.  L.  Adams,  W.  H. 
Howell,    O.    H.    Wiley,    Aldermen. 

1S77 — J.  C.  Jackson,  Mayor;  M. 
W.  Barham,  C.  M.  Edwards,  Jas.  L. 
Adams,  W.  H.  Howell,  H.  T.  God- 
dard,   F.   M.    Sparks,   Aldermen. 

1S7S — J.  C.  Jackson,  Mayor;  Jas. 
H.  Duncan,  C.  M.  Edwards.  W.  H. 
Howell,  M.  W.  Barham,  Shannon 
Holland,  Jas.    L.  Adams,  Aldermen. 

18  79 — L.  A.  Goddard,  Mayor;  C. 
M.  Kern,  R.  M.  Hundley,  T.  J.  Good- 
all,  M.  W.  Barham,  C.  M.  Edwards, 
J.    M.    Campbell,    Aldermen. 

1880 — L.  A.  Goddard.  Mayor: 
Thomas  Davis,  C.  M.  Kern,  J.  M. 
Campbell,  T.  J.  Goodall,  J.  L.  Cal- 
vert,  C.    M.    Edwards,   Aldermen. 

1S81 — L.  A.  Goddard,  Mayor;  J. 
M.  Campbell,  C.  M.  Edwards,  J.  L. 
Calvert,  C.  M.  Kern,  Thomas  Davis, 
T.    J.    Goodall,   Aldermen. 

1S82 — L.  A.  Goddard,  Mayor;  J. 
M.  Campbell,  T.  J.  Goodall,  Thos. 
Dunaway,  John  P.  Moore.  E.  L. 
Denison,    R.    Borton,    Aldermen. 

1883 — J.  C.  Jackson,  Mayor:  R. 
Borton.  T.  J.  Goodall,  John  P. 
Moore,     Thomas    Dunaway,     G.    W. 


Evans,   Shannon    Holland,   Aldermen. 

1884 — J.  C.  Jackson,  Mayor;  J. 
H.  Duncan,  J.  V.  Grider,  J.  A.  En- 
sminger,  C.  T.  Holland,  G.  W. 
Evans,   Shannon   Holland,   Aldermen. 

1885 — J.  C.  Jackson,  Mayor:  J. 
H.  Duncan,  J.  V.  Grider,  G.  W. 
Evans,  C.  T.  Holland,  W.  L.  Benson, 
J.    L.    Calvert,    Aldermen. 

1SS6 — J.  C.  Jackson,  Mayor;  S. 
S.  Ireland,  J.  L.  Calvert,  W.  L.  Ben- 
son, G.  W.  Evans,  James  L.  Adams, 
D.    A.    Davis.    Aldermen. 

1887 — Brice  Holland,  Mayor:  D. 
A.  Davis.  J.  L.  Adams,  S.  S.  Ireland, 
R.  Borton,  Joseph  Fozard,  Ed  T. 
Gallagher,   Aldermen. 

18  88 — Brice  Holland,  Mayor,  R. 
Borton,  Joseph  Fozard,  E.  T.  Gal- 
lagher, Chas.  H.  Denison,  O.  S.  Tip- 
py. A.  B.  Scurlock,  Aldermen. 

1889 — W.  T.  Davis,  Mayor:  C.  H. 
Denison,  O.  S.  Tippy,  A.  B.  Scur- 
lock, Thomas  Dunaway,  J.  H.  Bur- 
nett,  A.    J.    Binkley.    Aldermen. 

1890 — W.  T.  Davis,  Mayor:  J.  H. 
Burnett,  Thomas  Dunaway.  A.  J. 
Binkley,  J.  A.  Ensminger,  Joseph 
Fozard,    O.    S.    Tippy,    Aldermen. 


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HON.    JAMES    M.    \VASHBURN. 


GEO.  C.  CAMPBELL, 
City  Clerk. 


HON.   WM.  O.   POTTER, 
Master   in    Cli.ancery. 


1891 — Shannon  HoUanl,  Mayor; 
J.  C.  Mitchell,  J.  A.  Bnsminger,  O. 
S.  Tippy,  W.  H.  Phillips,  T.  J.  Bink- 
ley,    Flem    Gent,    Aldermen. 

1S92 — Shannon  Holland,  Mayor; 
W.  H.  Phillips,  J.  A.  Ensminger,  J. 
C.  Mitchell,  J.  V.  Grider,  S.  W. 
Walker,   Flem   Gent,   Aldermen. 

1893 — J.  w.  Westbrook,  Mayor; 
J.  V.  Grider,  J.  A.  Ensminser,  S.  W. 
Walker,  L.  B.  Casey,  T.  L.  Camp- 
bell,   C.    M.    Kern,    Aldermen. 

1S94 — James  W.  Westbrook,  Ma- 
yor; James  V.  Grider,  Samuel  W. 
Walker,  John  A.  Ensminger,  James 
A.  Campbell  (vice  Theodore  Camp- 
bell, deceased)  George  H.  Goodall. 
James  H.  Duncan,  William  H.  Phil- 
lips,  Aldermen. 

1895 — John     H.    Burnett,     Mayor; 


George  H.  Goodall,  James  H.  Dun- 
can,    William    H.    Phillips,     Charles 

A.  Gent,  Thomas  G.  Blankenship, 
Thomas  J.   Binkley,   Aldermen. 

1896 — John  H.  Burnett,  Mayor; 
Charles  A.  Gent,  Thomas  G.  Blank- 
enship.  Thomas   J.   Binkley,   William 

B.  Capron.  Romulus  D.  Holland, 
Ezra   N.    Rice,    Aldermen. 

1897 — Brice  Holland,  Mayor; 
William  B.  Capron,  Romulus  D.  Hol- 
land, Ezra  N.  Rice,  William  B.  Lee, 
Thomas  G.  Blankenship,  Caleb  T. 
Holland,   Aldermen. 

1898 — Brice  Holland,  Mayor; 
William  B.  Lee,  Thomas  G.  Blank- 
enship,   Caleb    T.    Holland,    WinHeld 

C.  S.  Rhea,  Leon  B.  Denison  (re- 
signed), Samuel  H.  Goodall,  Alder- 
men. 


THE  WATSON    MINE. 
On  Coal  Belt  Ry.,  Between  Carterville  and  Marion. 


1899 — Thomas  J.  Youngblood, 
Mayor;  John  H.  Duncan,  J.  C.  Jack- 
son, John  H.  Burnett,  Charles  A. 
Gent,  Robert  L.  Hudgens,  Lloyd  C. 
Campbell,  Aldermen. 

1900 — Thomas  J.  Youngblood, 
Mayor;  John  H.  Duncan,  J.  C.  Jack- 
son, John  H.  Burnett,  Charles  A. 
Gent,  Robert  L.  Hudgens,  Lloyd  C. 
Campbell,   Aldermen. 

1901 — W.  H.  Bundy,  Mayor:  J. 
M.  Dodd,  D.  A.  Davis,  Sandy  Miller, 
Joseph  Fozard,  Charles  A.  Gent, 
Robert  L.  Hudgens,  Lloyd  C.  Camp- 
bell,   Ezra    N.    Rice,    Aldermen. 

1902 — W.  H.  Bundy,  Mayor;  R. 
L.  Hudgens,  James  D.  Gill,  Otis  W. 
Williams,  John  S.  Strike,  John  M. 
Dodd,  D.  A.  Davis,  Ezra  N.  Rice, 
Joseph    Fozard,    Aldermen. 

1903 — Charles  H.  Denison,  Ma- 
yor; William  J.  Walker,  George  L. 
Brack,  Joseph  Fozard,  James  L. 
Adams,  Robert  L.  Hudgens,  James 
D.  Gill,  Otis  W.  Williams,  John  S. 
Strike,   Aldermen. 

1904 — Charles  H.  Denison,  Ma- 
yor; Robert  L.  Hudgens,  John  W. 
Spiller,  Otis  W.  Williams,  W.  F. 
Wright,  William  J.  Walker,  Geo.  L. 
Brack.  Joseph  Fozard,  James  L. 
Adams,  Aldermen;  D.  L.  Hartwell, 
City  Attorney;  Geo.  C.  Campbell, 
City  Clerk. 


Location  of  Manor. 

Marion  stands  at  nearly  the  ex- 
act center  of  Williamson  County, 
Illinois,  on  the  southwest  corner  of 
Section  IS,  Town  9,  Range  3  east  of 
the  Third  Principal  Meridian.  Wil- 
liam Benson  and  Bethany,  his  wife, 
donated  the  twenty  acres  which 
formed  the  first  nucleus  of  the  em- 
bryo city.  This  was  platted  in 
October    1839,    and    sold    at    auction 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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▼ 


JESSE  CASEY. 
Deceased. 


WASHINGTON   BINKLEY, 
Deceased. 


MRS.    MARIE    BINKLEY, 
Deceased. 


November  17th,  1  Sth  and  19th, 
bringing    "high   prices." 

There  were  15  4  tracts  of  the  land 
valued  at  the  first  assessment  in 
March,  1S40,  at  $27,13G,  and  per- 
sonal property  at  $139,410. 

The  court  house  stands  in  the  cen- 
ter of  this  tract,  with  four  main 
arteries  laid  out.  running  to  the 
four  points  of  the  compass  from  the 
court  house  square,  and  named  re- 
spectively East  and  West  Main 
Streets  and  North  and  South  Market 
Streets.  The  remaining  streets  are 
platted  to  run  parallel  with  or  at 
right  angles  to  these,  making  the 
city  easy  of  access  from  every  point 
of  the  compass. 

The  main  business  houses  are 
built  around  the  four  sides  of  the 
public  square  or  along  the  main 
streets   leading  from   them. 


The  depots  are  located  near  these 
main  streets  to  the  north  and  west, 
and  the  two  electric  lines  follow 
these  two  streets  after  passing 
around  the  square.  The  Court 
House  stands  on  an  elevated  knoll, 
or  hill,  nicely  rounded  and  gently 
and  evenly  sloping  in  all  directions 
as  if  artificially  constructed  for  the 
purpose. 

Our  birds-eye  view  of  the  city  was 
taken  from  the  cupola  of  the  court 
house,  and  runs  down  the  four 
main  streets  to  the  four  points  of 
the  compass.  All  the  principal  busi- 
ness blocks,  public  schools  and  fac- 
tories are  easily  discernable,  and 
some  of  the  fine  residences  stand 
out  prominently  at  a  short  distance 
from  the  business  center,  along  the 
main    streets   and   avenues. 


The  Churches  of 
Marion. 


THE     SOUTHERN     ILLINOIS     COAL   MINING   AND   WASHING   CO. 


first  Christian  Church. 

The  First  Christian  Church  of 
Marion.  111.,  was  first  organized  by 
Elder  H.  T.  Banta  and  A.  T.  Ben- 
son in  1865.  Its  fortunes  were 
somewhat  varied  for  a  few  years 
and  was  finally  reorganized  by  El- 
der Matthew  Wilson,  and  since  that 
time  it  has  occupied  a  prominent 
place  among  the  religious  forces  of 
this  city.  Of  the  charter  members 
there  are  living  as  far  as  known  F. 
M.  Goodall,  Mary  J.  Goodall,  Har- 
riet Goodall  and  Mary  Gray.  Pas- 
tors who  have  served  this  church 
are:  W.  H.  Boles,  M.  L.  Kurfees, 
R.  Trinkle,  John  A.  Williams,  J.  C. 
McReynolds,  J.  P.  Davis,  J.  Fred 
Jones,  Elder  Germaine,  Elder  Holt, 
J.  T.  Purvis,  J.  P.  Rowlinson,  J.  A. 
Lemmon,  C.  T.  Spitler  J.  J.  Harris, 
W.  G.  McColley,  and  W.  W.  Wee- 
don,  who  is  the  present  pastor. 
Evangelists  who  have  held  meetings 
for  this  church  are  H.  T.  Banta, 
Matthew  Wilson,  W.  L.  Crim,  W.  T. 
Napin,  H.  R.  Triekett,  Ira  J.  Chase, 
A.  J.  Fishback,  W.  A.  Ingram,  J.  V. 
Coombs,  and  S.  F.  Fowler.  The 
official  board  is  composed  of  the 
following:  Elders  W.  J.  Spiller, 
John  H.  Duncan,  J.  W.  Keeler,  J. 
M.  Aikman;  Deacons  W.  H.  War- 
der, A.  J.  Binkley,  D.  A.  Davis,  Ed. 
Campbell,  Chas.  Binkley,  David 
Bennett.  A  splendid  evergreen 
Sunday  school  is  maintained  with 
the  following  officers:  Supt.,  W. 
H.  Warder;  Asst.  Supt.  Ed.  Camp- 
bell: Sec,  Mabel  Dunnaway.  The 
Senior  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  is  flourishing 
and     has      the      following      officers: 


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ELDER   J.   J.    HARRIS. 


ANNIE  B.  CASEY, 
Wife  of  Samuel  K.  Casey. 


LAURA  B.   CASEY, 

Daughter    of    Samuel    K.    and    Annie 

B.  Casey. 


Pres.,  Byid  Spiller;  Vice  Pres., 
Harry  Roach;  Sec,  Mabel  Dunna- 
way.  The  Junior  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  is 
under  the  control  of  Pres.  Grace 
Goddard.  The  building  was  erected 
In  1S75,  and  remodeled  in  1901.  It 
is  well  located  on  North  Market  St., 
and  has  a  seating  capacity  of  500. 


Che  first  Methodist   Gpiscopal 
Church,  South. 

The  First  Methoiist  Episcopal 
Church  South  in  Marion,  111.,  was 
organized  in  the  Court  House  by 
Dr.  Jacob  Ditzler  in  186?.  Dr. 
Lodge  and  wife,  Matthew  Edwards 
and  wife,  Mrs,  Zack  Duram,  Mrs. 
William      Cook,      Mrs.      Wiley      and 


others  whose  names  cannot  be  se- 
cured were  charter  members.  Rev. 
William  Finley  was  the  first  ap- 
pointed pastor.  He  took  charge  of 
the  work  soon  after  his  appoint- 
ment, holding  services  for  a  short 
time  in  the  Court  House,  then  the 
place  for  services  was  changed  to 
the  old  school  house.  Hon.  S.  S. 
Vick  organized  the  first  Sunday 
School  in  1S66  and  remained  its  ef- 
ficient superintendent  for  about 
twenty  years.  In  the  fall  of  1SG5 
Rev.  J.  B.  Saunders  was  appointed 
preacher  in  charge,  serving  only  for 
a  short  itme. 

In  the  fall  of  18  66  Rev.  W.  P. 
Nance  was  appointed  to  the  work, 
and  by  his  untiring  energy  the  first 
church    building     was     erected,     but 


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CHICAGO  AND  BIG    MUDDY  COAL  MINE. 


soon  after  it  was  completed  he 
closed  his  eyes  in  death.  In  the 
erection  of  this  building  Dr.  Lodge, 
Matthew  Edwards  and  S.  S.  Vick 
were  prime  factors.  Matthew  Ed- 
wards, Zack  Hudgens  and  S.  S. 
Vick  constituted  the  first  board  of 
trustees,  the  last  named  has  served 
throughout  the  entire  history  of 
the  church,  and  is  still  a  promin- 
ent  member  on   the   board. 

In  1892  the  first  building  was 
sold,  and  under  the  pastorate  of 
Rev.  R.  P.  Howell  the  present  com- 
modious building  was  erected  on 
South  Street  at  a  cost  of  about  $3,- 
000.00,  and  dedicated  free  of  debt, 
soon  after  it  was  completed  by  Dr. 
John  Matthews,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
J.  M.  Cline,  S.  S.  Vick  and  A.  L. 
Cline  and  others  were  prominently 
connected  with  the  building  enter- 
prise. The  church  owns  a  valuable 
and  up-to-date  parsonage,  located 
on  North  Liberty  Street.  The 
church  is  free  of  debt,  and  is  in  a 
prosperous  condition.  John  M. 
Dodd,  A.  L.  Cline  and  S.  S.  Vick 
constitute  the  present  board  of  trus- 
tees. 

The  present  official  board  is  com- 
posed of  the  following  named  per- 
sons: Joshua  Lowe,  chairman; 
Prof.  J.  W.  Asbury,  Secretary;  A. 
L.  Cline,  Treasurer;  S.  M.  May,  Ed. 
Gill,  J.  M.  Cline,  W.  M.  Davis  and  J. 
H.  Farris,  trustees.  This  church  has 
been  served  by  some  of  the  most  ef- 
ficient members  of  the  Illinois  con- 
ference. The  present  pastor  is  now 
serving  his  third  year.  This  church 
has  a  prompt  and  an  efficient  choir, 
a  most  excellent  Sunday  School 
under  the  direction  and  control  of 
Prof.  J.  W.  Asbury,  the  efficient  su- 
perintendent; and  a  live  and  enthu- 
siastic Woman's  Home  Missionary 
Society. 


SOUN'ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLINOIS. 


THOMAS    H.    GAHAGAX, 
Miner,    Carterville    District. 


T.  S.   MORRISSON, 
Morrisson     &     Williford     Coal 
Bottling   Works. 


HOGAX   WILLIFORD, 
Morrisson     &     Willit'ord     Coal 
Bottling   Works. 


Che    German   Gvangcltcal   Ztons 
Church,  C.  6.  Michc,  Pastor. 

The  German  Evangelical  Zions 
Congregation,  a  member  of  the  Ger- 
man Evangelical  Synod  of  North 
America,    was    founded    A.    D.    1SS8. 

The  church  and  parsonage  of 
this  congregation  are  located  in 
Southwest  Marion,  where  sixteen 
years  ago  Rev.  E.  Schweizer,  Zions' 
first  pastor,  purchased  from  Chas. 
Dennison  a  few  lots  on  which  he 
built  a  church  and  parsonage,  most- 
ly out  of  his  own  funds. 

Rev.  E.  Schweizer  remained  in 
charge  from  ISSS  to  18  9  2.  His 
work   was  difficult,   his   people   being 


in  majority  hardworking  but  not 
•■well-to-do  farmers."  After  his  de- 
parture the  parsonage  was  sold  by 
the  B.  P.  H.  Association  and  Rev. 
A.  Buckstruck  became  successor  to 
Rev.  Schweizer.  He  remained  in 
charge   from    1S92    to   1894. 

The  congregation  being  young 
and  the  pastor  young,  they  had  the 
experience  that  many  other  congre- 
gations had  gone  through.  In  1894 
Rev.  H.  KruU  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  congregation  by  the  board  of 
Mission  of  said  Synod,  and  did 
some  successful  work  during  a  term 
of  nearly  four  years.  The  work  was 
under  good  headway  when  Rev. 
Krull     was     succeeded     by     Rev.     C. 


JOAB    GRAY'S    LIVERY   BARN. 


Press,  an  elderly  gentleman  of  ex- 
perience. Before  Rev.  Press  came 
into  the  church  the  congregation 
built  a  new  parsonage  west  of  the 
church  at  the  instigation  of  the 
Board  of  Mission. 

This  venerable  old  gentleman  did 
all  in  his  power  to  bring  about  good 
conditions.  But  past  experiences,  it 
seems,  had  made  the  people  of  the 
church  slow  to  appreciate  the  good 
will  of  their  pastor.  Rev.  Press, 
however,  remained  in  charge  until 
1900,  when  the  congregation  ex- 
tended a  call  to  Rev.  C.  E.  Miche, 
its  present  pastor. 

About  this  time  newcon:ers  be- 
gan to  settle  in  Williamson  County. 
Marion  rose  from  Village  to  City. 
All  sorts  of  industries  were  taken 
up.  New  life  also  came  into  the 
church.  Rev.  Miche  being  equal  to 
the  occasion  as  a  man  of  vast  ex- 
perience in  church  work,  having 
been  connected  with  some  of  the 
largest  churches  in  the  Synod,  he 
at  once  took  up  the  work  without 
the  aid  formerly  given  by  the  Board 
of   Missions. 

On  organizing  a  young  people's 
society  of  nearly  50  members,  this 
society  became  a  stronghold  of  the 
congregation,  the  parents  quite  na- 
turally taking  interest  in  the  spir- 
itual  welfare   of   their   children. 

The  ladies'  auxiliary,  "Franen 
verein,"  was  reorganized  and  proved 
a  great  helpmate  to^^e  congrega- 
tion. ^-' 

So  far  the  church  had  found  as- 
sistance each  year  from  the  mission 
funds  of  the  Synod,  the  congrega- 
tion contributing  $200  to  $300  to 
the  pastor's  salary  and  running  ex- 
penses. On  .January  1,  1904,  the 
cashier's  report,  however,  showed  a 
net    income    of    nearly    $«nn.(io     for 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLI A^rSO^'   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


JOHN   W.    SPILLER, 
Alderman   2nd  Ward. 


ZOLLA   A.   DODD, 
American  Express  Agent. 


FRANK  M.  BARTON, 

Asst.      Cashier     Marion     State     and 

Savings     Bank. 


1903,   with  almost  $2  00.on   on  hand, 
all  expenses  being  paid. 

Thus  this  congregation,  listing 
about  60  members,  men  only,  looks 
into  a  prosperous  future  through 
the  Grace  of  Gol.  Services  are  held 
each  Sunday  morning  at  10  o'clock, 
Sunday  School  at  9  o'clock,  Young 
People's  Society  meeting  at  2  p.  m., 
1st  and  3rd  Sundays  of  each  month. 
All  services  in  German  language. 
The  trustees  or  elders  of  this 
church  are  Messrs.  Henry  Wickert, 
Wm.  Sander,  Nick  Krumrey,  Chas. 
Bachmann. 


first  Baptist  Church. 

The  First  Baptist  Church  of  Ma- 
rion, Illinois,  was  organized  on  the 
19th  day  of  August,  1S65.  The 
following  ministers  composed  the 
presbytery:  Elder  William  Ferrell, 
Elder  David  Butler  and  Elder  W.  B. 
Chamness.  James  M.  Washburn 
was  elected  secretary  of  the  meet- 
ing. 

The  charter  members  were:  Isaac 
McCoy,  Thomas  Carter,  John  Jen- 
kins, William  Waggoner,  Celenda 
McCoy,    Louisa    Carter,    Susan    Wag- 


TOUACCU   WAKEllOUSK  AND  DRYING   BARN. 

Built  by  Goodall  and  Campbell  about    1881.      Now   used   by   the   Armour 

Packing  Company  for  a   Poultry   House. 


gener,  Mary  Jenkins  and  Agnes  Jen- 
kins. 

These  brethern  and  sisters  pre- 
sented letters  of  dismission  from 
Davis  Prairie  church.  Louisa  Pitts 
presented  a  letter  from  New  Hope 
church.  Letters  were  also  presented 
by  Melinda  Hargett  and  Mary 
Moore,  from  Academy  church,  Ken- 
tucky. Margaret  Ireland,  Adaline 
Bennet,  Isabelle  Marschalk,  Eliza- 
beth Tinker,  Ellen  Mcllvoy,  Nancy 
A.  Morris  and  Maria  Penninger  were 
received  as  charter  members  on  the 
promise  of  letters  from  their 
churches. 

The  Articles  of  Faith,  setting 
forth  the  fact  that  the  Bible  is  the 
only  infallible  rule  of  faith  and  prac- 
tice with  the  Baptist,  were  read  and 
unanimously  adopted.  The  presby- 
tery then  recognized  the  body  as  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
in   Marion,   Illinois. 

On  the  second  day  of  September, 
IS 65,  the  church  met  in  the  first 
regular  conference  meeting,  when 
Elder  David  Butler  was  elected  pas- 
tor and  Thomas  Carter  and  Jere- 
miah Rice  were  elected  to  the  office 
of    Deacons. 

Thus  began  the  present  Mission- 
ary  Baptist   Church   in   Marion. 

It  would  be  interesting  here  to 
give  the  names  of  the  different  pas- 
tors and  the  time  they  served  the 
church,  but  the  data  necessary  is 
not  in  hand,  and  it  would  make  this 
sketch  too  long.  The  present  out- 
look for  the  church  is,  doubtless, 
more  encouraging  than  at  any  period 
in  its  history.  Many  difficulties  in 
the  past  which  hindered  the  prog- 
ress of  the  church  are  no  longer  ob- 
stacles in  the  way  of  church  growth 


SOU\ENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


and     aggressive     development.  In 

November,  1903,  the  church  called 
to  her  pastorate  Elder  J.  S.  Ed- 
monds, and  he  entered  upon  the 
work    December   first. 

Already  signs  of  more  intense 
church  life  are  manifest,  and  there 
have  been  in  three  months  eighty- 
five  additions  to  the  membership. 
There  are  now  enrolled  upon  the 
church  record  three  hun  ired  and 
fifty-four  members.  Two  hundred 
and  fifty  Sunday  School  scholars, 
and  a  large,  active  B.  Y.  P.  U.  char- 
acterize the  working  forces  of  the 
church.  The  present  pastor  is  plan- 
ning for  a  larger  and  more  up-to- 
date  church  building  in  the  next 
year.  This  is  necessary  to  meet  the 
demands  of  the  cause  of  Christ  in 
Marion  as  the  present  church  build- 
ing often  fails  to  seat  the  congrega- 
tion. 

W.   P.   THKOG.AIORTON. 

William  P.  Throgmorton  was  born 
September  16.  IS 49,  in  Henry  Co., 
Tenn.,  where  he  remained  until  he 
was  1-t  years  old,  when  he  was 
brought  by  his  mother  and  step- 
father to  Johnson  county,  Illinois, 
where  he  remained  about  two  years. 
His  mother  died  in  August.  1S65, 
after  which  he  was  dependent  on  his 
own  resources.  He  went  to  Wil- 
liamson county,  where,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1868,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Eliza  C.  Baker,  who  continues  his 
life  partner. 

His    education    is    such    as    he    ac- 


REV.    W.    P.    THROGMORTON. 
Pastor   of   the   First   Baptist  Church. 


quired  in  the  coirmon  schools,  in  a 
select  school  and  by  his  own  per- 
sonal efforts  at  home  and  in  his 
work.  He  made  a  publi"  profession 
of  faith  in  Christ  in  July,  1870,  and 
was  baptized  into  the  fellowship  of 
Pleasant  Hill  church,  Williamson 
county,  Illinois.  A  month  later  he 
was  licensed  to  preach.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1.871,  he  was  ordained  in  the 
same  church,  to  the  full  work  of  the 
gospel  ministry.  His  first  pastorate 
was  with  the  Hopewell  church, 
Johnson  county.  111.,  beginning  in 
the  fall  of  1873,  v.here  he  preached 


FREE  BAPTIST  CHURCH 


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for  two  years  on  the  once  a  month 
plan.  Up  to  18  7  7,  he  preached  for 
various  churches  on  the  once  a 
month  plan,  being  occupied  other- 
wise as  a  teacher.  In  fact,  teach- 
ing was  his  main  work  for  about  ten 
years.  In  1867  he  came  to  Benton, 
III.,  and  took  charge  of  the  church 
there,  at  the  same  time  taking  edi- 
torial care  of  the  Baptist  Banner, 
which  paper  he  published  for  nearly 
ten  years  with  an  intermission  of 
about  one  year.  For  about  six 
months  of  this  time  the  Banner  was 
published  at  Cairo,  111.:  for  some- 
thing over  a  year,  at  Mt.  Vernon, 
111.;  all  the  rest  of  the  time  at  Ben- 
ton. Brother  Throgmorton  contin- 
ued as  pastor  at  Benton  for  nine 
and  one-half  years,  after  which  he 
spent  three  years  at  Mt.  Vernon. 
After  that  he  was  pastor  at  Louisi- 
ana, Mo.,  for  two  years  and  three 
months.  Next,  at  Fort  Smith,  Ark., 
for  three  years  and  three  months. 
Then  in  November,  189.5,  he  came  to 
DuQuoin  to  become  editor  of  the 
Baptist  News,  which  paper  he  con- 
tinued to  publish  till  in  June,  1902, 
when  it  was  merged  into  the  Cen- 
tral Baptist,  of  St.  Louis.  Most  of 
the  time  after  coming  to  DuQuoin 
he  had  pastoral  care  of  the  First 
church  of  that  city,  and  there,  as 
well  as  all  former  pastorates,  God 
has  blessed  him  with  success.  Dur- 
ing his  ministry  he  has  baptized 
over  a  thousand  persons.  He  can 
not  tell  exactly  how  many,  as  he  has 
kept  no  record.  Outside  of  the 
places  named,  in  his  early  ministry 
he  served  as  supply  pastor  more  or 
less,  at  Friendship,  Union  county; 
Stonefort  and  Cana,  Williamson 
county;  New  Hope  and  Metropolis, 
Massac  county;  New  Salem  and  New 
Burnside,  Johnson  county.  At  New 
Burnside  he  made  his  home  for 
some  three  or  four  years  and  while 
he  was  supply  the  house  of  worship 
there  was  built.  He  cherishes  the 
memory  of  his  work  and  of  his 
friends  in  all  these  places.  Brother 
Throgmorton  has  had  good  success 
in  his  own  churches.  He  has  rarely 
held  special  meetings  with  other 
pastors.  He  held  one  meeting  in 
DuQuoin,  continuing  seven  weeks,  in 
which  he  preached  every  sermon  but 
one,  resulting  in  187  additions  to 
the  church,  152  of  them  by  baptism. 
In  another  meeting  with  the  same 
church  he  was  blessed  with  122  ad- 
ditions. Besides  pastoral  and  edi- 
torial work  he  has  figured  some  in 
the  controversial  field.  He  has  held 
about  forty  public  debates.  Perhaps 
thirty  of  these  have  been  with  Dis- 
ciples. He  is  called  on  occassionally 
for  work  of  this  sort  yet,  but  the 
public  religious  debate  seems  to  be 
one  of  the  things  that  are  passing. 
Brother  Throgmorton  has  a  fine 
physique  and  enjoys  excellent 
health.  He  does  not  consider  that 
the  dead  line  in  the  ministry  is  yet 
within    many,     many   years   of     him. 


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SOUVEKIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


but  hopes  to  retain  his  mental  and 
physical  vigor  to  a  good  old  age. 
We  omitted  to  mention  that  the  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  given 
him  by  Ewing  college  in  the  year 
1S90.  He  was  moderator  of  the 
Baptist  General  association  of  Illi- 
nois in  ISSd  and  was  president  of 
the  Baptist  state  convention  of 
Arkansas   in    1S93. 

Brother  Throgmorton  stands 
among  the  Baptists  of  Illinois,  a 
giant,  in  heart,  mind  and  body. 
Wherever  he  goes  among  the  com- 
mon people,  he  is  spoken  of  as  the 
great  commoner.  an:l  the  common 
people  hear  him  gladly.  This  is  our 
best  tribute,  as  we  belong  to  the 
common  people.  As  a  brother  in- 
deed, as  a  preacher  of  sound  doc- 
trine, as  a  man  of  sweet  spirit,  who 
is  not  above  one  of  the  least  of  God's 
children,  we  love  him.  As  a  man 
of  power,  of  ability  and  keen  dis- 
cernment, a  bulwark  against  false 
doctrine,  we  admire  him.  Now  we 
must  make  the  train. — Primitive 
Missionary    of    Manchester,    Illinois. 

The  foregoing  was  published  in 
.June,  1903.  December  1,  1904,  Dr. 
Throgmorton  came  to  Marion  and 
took  charge  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  that  city.  He  will  fully 
identify  himself  with  local  interests, 
and  doubtless  the  work  here  will 
prosper  in  his  hands. 


Kr.DER   J.  J.   TATUM. 

The  minister  whose  name  heads 
this  short  sketch  was  the  son  of  W. 
B.  and  Emily  Johnson  Tatum,  born 
at  Steelville,  Illinois,  May  2  2nd. 
18  63.  His  antecedents  were  hardy 
English,  who  came  from  London, 
England,  in  1619,  and  settled  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  from  thence  the  descend- 
ants migrated  to  various  states  in 
the   union. 

Elder  Tatum  "wielded  the  birch" 
in   the  counties  of  Jackson  and   Per- 


LAXE  BKOTHERS'  TRANSFER  BARN 


ry   as  a  successful   pedagogue   before 
attaining   the   dignity   of   a    minister. 

On  January  1,  IS 89,  Mr.  Tatum 
united  with  the  Free  Baptist  Church 
at  Campbell  Hill.  Jackson  County, 
Illinois,  and  was  licensed  to  preach 
in  July  of  the  same  year.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1893,  he  was  ordained  to 
the  ministry  by  his  church,  to  which 
he  has  ever  since  brought  credit  and 
honorel  the  most  sacred  institution 
by  his  services.  June  22,  1886,  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Hettie  Mason, 
who  has  proven  herself  a  worthy 
helpmate. 

During  the  last  decade  he  has 
been  arduously  and  successfully  en- 
gaged in  the  pastoral  duties  of  his 
chosen  profession.  Eight  years  of 
his  preaching  were  spent  in  Jackson 
County,  Illinois,  and  left  in  answer 
to   a   call   from   Indiana. 

On   August    12.    1890.   a   Free  Bap- 


tist Church  was  organized  in  Ma- 
rion, Illinois,  since  which  time  the 
congregation  has  met  with  varying 
degrees  of  success.  The  importance 
of  this  iield  appealed  to  the  Home 
Mission  Board,  who  persuaded  Elder 
Tatum  to  assume  the  pastorate  Nov- 
ember   1,    1902. 

From  the  date  of  his  induction  in- 
to the  pastorate  the  church  has  been 
undergoing  a  sure,  gradual  and 
healthy  evolution.  The  numerical 
and  financial  strength  of  the  congre- 
gation has  rapidly  grown.  The  spir- 
itual side  of  the  church  has  steadily 
advanced  in  appreciation  of  the  pas- 
tor's precept  and  practice  before 
them.  In  fact.  Elder  Tatum  has  suc- 
ceeded in  placing  his  congregation 
in  the  forefront  of  Marion's  church- 
es in  the  exemplification  of  the 
"works  of  love."  An  elegant  little 
chapel  has  also  been  built  and  dedi- 
cated at  a  nearby  mining  mission 
point,  due  in  a  great  measure  to  his 
energy  and  consecration.  On  July 
10th,  1902,  he  served  as  the  official 
"spiritual  adviser"  to  Cal  Price  and 
Jerry  Graves,  executed  that  day  for 
murder,  and  his  faithful,  judicious 
service  for  weeks  previous  prepared 
the  young  men  for  the  trying  ordeal. 


ItKV.   !!.   F.   BAKER. 


SECOND    WARD    SCHOOL. 


Mr.  B.  F.  Baker  was  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  185  7,  in  Grassy  Precinct 
in  the  southwestern  part  of  the 
county,  where  he  was  reared  and 
attended  the  District  School  until 
he  began  teaching  in  1875.  In  the 
spring  of  1877  he  took  a  term  in 
the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  Uni- 
versity at  Carbondale.  and  on  the 
12th  of  the  following  July  was  mar- 
ried to  Sarah  D.  Fly,  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  M.  L.  Fly.  He  soon  after 
bought    a    farm    and    for    ten    years 


SOU\'EXIR  ()F   WIIJJAMSOX   COUXTY,  ILLIXOIS. 


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HOME    OF    \V.    .1.    AlKMAX. 
Where  he  was   born   and   has   lived   to  the  present   time.     It  is  within  the 
corporate  limits  of  Marion,  on  the  old   farm   property  now   on  the   north- 
east corner  of  West   Main   Street    and    North    Russell. 


farmed  in  the  summer  and  taught 
school  in  the  winter.  In  1SS7  he 
dropped  teaching  but  continued  to 
run  his  farm  until  August,  1S97, 
when  he  moved  into  Marion.  In 
October,  1896,  he  hai  been  or- 
dained a  minister  of  the  Missionary 
Baptist  Church  and  when  he  came 
to  town  had  the  pastorate  of  four 
churches  which  he  continued  to 
serve.  January,  1S9S,  he  accepted 
from  Sheriff  Parks  the  appointment 
as  deputy  collector  of  taxes,  and 
the  following  year  was  re-appointed 
by  Sheriff  Gray.  Before  coming  to 
Marion,  he  served  his  township  for 
eight  years  as  treasurer  and  four 
years  as  Justice  of  Peace,  and  then 
moved  to  Marion.  He  is  at  present 
an  elder  and  active  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church.  In  1903  he 
entered  into  partnership  with  James 
A.  Felts  in  the  book  and  stationery 
business,  which  they  are  still  suc- 
cessfully  carrying  on. 


calling  for  seekers,  and  when  Mc- 
Kinney  went  forwarj  the  preacher 
shook  his  hand  and  told  him  ihat  he 
was  a  little  too  short  to  come  to  the 
altar,  please  take  the  second  seat 
back.  Since  the  public  has  given 
him  a  trial  he  has  never  more  been 
accused  of  being  too  short,  but  has 
been  actively  engaged  in  both  the 
ministerial  and  teaching  professions. 
He  is  willing  to  wear  the  name 
given  him  "Jack  of  all  trades."  For 
the  past  three  years  Mr.  McKinney 
has  been  principal  of  the  Crainville 
public  schools  and  has  been  em- 
ployed as  superintendent  of  the 
Johnson  City  schools  for  the  com- 
ing year.  His  most  noted  revival 
meeting  was  held  at  Crainville  in 
the  spring  of  1903.  Assisted  by 
Rev.    J.    F.    Kirk,     the    meeting    was 


held  dui-ing  the  la.st  two  weeks  of 
school,  which  resulted  in  55  con- 
versions in  the  two  weeks.  All  the 
pupils  but  three  in  the  principal's 
room  were  convertel  and  the  teach- 
er and  about  half  the  pupils  in  the 
second    room. 

His  pastoral  work  at  Crainville 
within  the  past  three  years,  though 
done  in  connection  with  school  work, 
has  resulted  in  170  conversions  and 
as  many  additions  to  the  church. 
His  present  pastoral  work  is  at 
Crainville,  Lauder  and  Creal 
Springs.  Jlr.  McKinney  has  attend- 
ed school  at  Marion,  Carbondale  and 
Valparaiso.  He  has  done  a  great 
deal  of  traveling,  but  it  has  been 
mostly  about  home.  He  was  mar- 
ried .March  21,  isy."i.  to  Miss  Agnes 
Neilson. 


KLDKH   A.  M.   K1HKK.\.\D. 

Elder  A.  M.  Kirkland  was  born 
in  Tennessee  Janllary  6,  1S60.  Re- 
moved with  his  parents  to  Western 
Kentucky  in  1874.  Graduated  at 
Farniington  Institute,  then  a  lead- 
ing school  of  Western  Kentucky,  in 
1884.  Entered  the  profession  of 
teaching;  taught  at  Farmington, 
Wingo,  Mayfleld  and  Fulton,  Ken- 
tucky. Studied  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  at  Mayfield,  Ky., 
in  1889.  Soon  abandonel  the  law 
and  returned  to  his  old  profession, 
teaching.  Was  president  of  Fulton 
Normal  and  Business  College  from 
1892  to  1895  inclusive.  Was  presi- 
dent of  the  West  Kentucky  Educa- 
tional Association  1893-94.  Joined 
the  Primitive  Baptist  Church  in 
1891.  and  was  ordained  an  elder  in 
1896.  He  did  an  active  ministerial 
work  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee. 
He  was  called  to  the  care  of  the 
church  in  Marion  in  May,  1904,  ac- 
cepting the  call  in  July  and  entered 
on  the  work  in  August.     He  now  re- 


KEV.  J.  W.  .M<KINNEY. 

Rev.  J.  W.  McKinney  was  born  in 
a  humble  home  on  a  farm  near  Car- 
terville,  Illinois.  He  is  a  son  of  Mr. 
James  H.  an:l  Mrs.  Minerva  J.  Mc- 
Kinney. Having  had  the  advice  and 
teaching  of  christian  parents,  he 
early  had  an  ambition  to  make  his 
mark  in  the  world.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  was  licensed  to  preach 
the  gospel  by  the  Free  Baptist  Or- 
der of  Christians,  and  nine  months 
later  ordained  to  the  ministry.  At 
the  age  of  twenty,  he  held  a  certifi- 
cate under  Supenintendent  T.  J. 
Youngblood,  but  was  too  short  to 
secure  a  school.  This  being  the 
second  time  he  was  accused  of  being 
too  short.  When  only  twelve  years 
of   age   a    self-important    pastor   was 


RESIDENCE  OF     JA.MES  FELTS. 


84 


SOUX'ENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUXTV.   ILLLXOIS. 


sides  with  his  family  at  2(io 
Hanecey  street,  where  he  will  re- 
main till  the  church  can  erect  a 
suitable  residence  in  their  beauti- 
ful church  lot,  which  they  will  do 
right   away. 

His  courage,  zeal  and  eloquence 
are  well  known  and  need  no  special 
mention    here. 


KEV.    J.    S.    EDMONDS. 

Elder  J.  S.  Edmonds,  late  pastor 
of  the  Marion  Missionary  Baptist 
church,  was  ordained  to  the  gospel 
work  of  the  ministry  February  2  6, 
ISSS,  by  a  presbytery  call  by  Mil- 
burn  Baptist  Church,  at  Milburn, 
Carlisle  County,  Kentucky. 

His  first  pastorate  was  at  Murry, 
the  county  seat  of  Caloway  County, 
Kentucky.  Following  his  pastorate 
there,  he  was  called  to  the  care  of 
the  Baptist  Church  at  Paragould. 
Arkansas,  which  was  then  in  its  in- 
fancy, the  Associationa!  and  State 
mission  boards  contributing  five 
hundred  dollars  toward  his  salary. 
In  six  months  he  succeeded  in  com- 
pleting the  church  house  and  had  it 
dedicated.  During  his  pastorate 
there  the  church  became  self-sus- 
taining and  is  now  one  of  the  lead- 
ing   churches    in    the    state. 

While  in  Arkansas  he  was  called 
to  the  care  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  at  Benton,  Illinois.  He  en- 
tered upon  the  work  there  the  first 
Sunday  in  January,  1891.  While 
pastor  at  Benton  he  accepted  a  call 
of  the  Harrisburg  Baptist  Church, 
Saline  County,  Illinois.  During  his 
pastorates  with  these  churches  he 
assisted  neighbor  pastors  in  several 
special  meetings,  in  which  many 
souls  were  savel.  In  fact,  from 
1S91    to    1900    in    his   own    meetings 


RESIDENCE   OF  G.    W.   PILLOW, 
Attorney  at  Law. 


and  in  meetings  in  which  he  assist- 
ed, about  nine  hundred  people  made 
a  profession  of  a  personal  faith  in 
Christ.  In  1900  he  was  called  to 
the  pastorate  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  Monroe,  Louisiana,  where 
he  remained  until  October  first, 
1903.  His  work  in  Louisiana  was 
very  successful.  The  membership 
at   Monroe  was  doubled. 

He  was  elected  vice  president  of 
the  State  Convention,  and  a  member 
of  the  State  Board.  He  was  also 
elected  editor  of  the  Baptist  Chron- 
icle,  the   Baptist   paper  of  the   state. 

Elder  J.  S.  EdmonJs  is  now  in  the 
prime  of  life.  He  is  fearless  and 
aggressive  in  his  methods  of  work. 
He   is  a   student,   thinks   for  himself 


and  has  the  courage  of  his  convic- 
tions. Marion  Church  thinks  her- 
self fortunate  in  securing  his  ser- 
vices, for  his  brethern,  who  know 
him  best,  now  recognize  him  as  a 
leader.  With  the  present  opportuni- 
ties in  Marion,  and  with  him  to  lead 
the  church,  the  brethern  throughout 
Southern  Illinois  are  expecting 
g:'eat  things  of  Marion  Church. 
Addenda. 
On  account  of  the  precarious 
state  of  the  health  of  his  daughter 
Mr.  Edmonds  accepted  a  call  from 
the  church  of  his  choice  at  Black- 
well,  Oklahoma,  in  September  of 
last  year,  and  has  removed  his  fam- 
ily to  a  more  congenial  climate,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Throgmorton  taking  his 
place. 


KEV.   C.    E.    .MICHE. 


Tastor    of    the    German     Evangelical 
7jUms  Church  of  Marion. 


"TAKING   IT  COOL." 
.Near  the  C.  &  B.    M.,   C.   &  C.   Co. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
liorn  in  Gasconade  County,  Mis- 
souri. Jlay  7.  1S62.  He  was  reared 
in  St.  Louis  and  received  the  ru  li- 
tnents  of  his  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  that  city.  His  parents 
designating  him  for  the  church,  he 
very  soon  entered  the  parish  school, 
from  which  he  graduated  when  fif- 
teen years  old.  He  then  entered 
Elmhurst  Collge,  which  is  located  at 
the  village  of  Elmhurst,  on  the  C. 
ft  N.  W.  Ry.,  twelve  miles  out  of 
Chicago,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  l.SSl.  After  teaching  school 
some  years  he  took  up  the  sys- 
tematic study  of  theology  at  Eden 
College.  St.  Louis.  Mo.,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  German  Evangelical 
Synod  of  North  America. 

He  received  his  examination  cer- 
tificate  and   entered   the   ministry   of 


S()U\'EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COL'NTV.  ILLINOIS. 


85 


RESIDENCE  OF  OTIS  W.  WILLIAMS. 
Alderman  Williams  is  one  of  the  most  successful  builders  in  Marion,  and 
last  year  sold  his  cottage  home  on  East  College  street  to  Mr.  Gent  and 
bought  a  large,  roomy,  two-story  old  home  of  9  rooms,  located  at  8(i4 
Buchanan  Street  and  remodeled  it.  It  stands  in  a  beautiful  location, 
on  large  grounds,  85x142,  and  the  skill  of  the  buildei-  has  turned  it  into 
a  very  desirable  residence,  as  is  proven  by  the  handsome  half-tone 
shown  in  this  book.  The  property  is  well  worth  $3000,  but  Mr.  and 
Mrs.    Williams    don't   care  to  sell. 

his   church    in    August.    19oo,    where     ber    of    Casey    Lodge.    747,    and    be- 


he   still   remains. 

He  was  married  June  2  6,  1SS4, 
to  Wilhelmine  Michelmann,  at 
Quiney,  Illinois,  the  Rev.  Lu  Rague 
officiating.  Four  children  have 
blessed  this  union,  Frieda.  .  Carl. 
Edgar  and  Minna.  All  are  living 
but    Carl. 

REV.    VVM.    T.   IM.iTHIS. 
Pastor   of   the   M.    R.   Cliuich   South. 


longs   to  the  Rebekah's  here. 

He  was  married  November  18, 
1886,  at  the  age  of  20,  to  Miss 
Mary  J.  Finn,  by  whom  he  has  had 
three  children,  two  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing. 


UEV.    FUED    L.    THOMSOX. 


Rev.    Fred    L.    Thomson     was     the 
eldest   son   of  Dr.   William  Thomson, 


who  was  born  in  East  Tennessee  in 
May,  18 IS.  He  was  a  physician  and 
a  local  preacher  in  the  Methodist 
Church  for  twenty  years  or  more. 
His  mother  was  a  Holland  lady  and 
a  slave-owner  in  the  early  days. 
The  elder  Thomson  was  a  staunch 
Union  man,  notwithstanding,  and 
after  laboring  for  years  in  Mont- 
gomery County,  Tenn..  as  a  doctor 
and  a  preacher,  his  Union  senti- 
ments compelled  him  to  move  on 
and  he  came  with  his  family  to 
Johnson  County,  Illinois,  where  he 
died  at  Bloomfield  in  February, 
1894.   at   the   age  of   76. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  on  the  old  Thomson  homestead 
in  Tennessee,  June  23rd,  1841,  and 
came  to  Illinois  with  his  parents  in 
1863.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion by  private  tutors  at  Chapel 
Hill  and  Salem  Acadamies  in  Ten- 
nessee, before  the  days  of  the  free 
school  system.  He  then  took  a  Col- 
legiate course  under  Professors 
Richardson,  Odoorn  and  Daniels  un- 
til 1860,  when  all  the  schools  were 
closed  by  the  war.  His  education 
had  been  directed  with  a  view  to 
the  ministry,  and  while  still  in 
school   he   began   to   preach. 

He  was  converted  when  but  12 
years  old,  brought  up  and  licensed 
to  preach  in  the  M.  E.  Church  South, 
and  .ioined  that  Conference  in  1860. 
His  first  station  was  at  Watkin's 
Grove,  Nashville,  when  everything 
was  in  uproar  and  confusion  on  ac- 
count of  the  war,  and  he  was  fre- 
quently arrested  by  one  side  or  the 
othen  even  when  attending  funerals. 
He,  too,  was  a  Union  man.  and  soon 
found  it  necessary  to  follow  his  pa- 
rents into  Illinois,  and  in  1863  he 
joined  the  Conference  of  the  M.  E. 
Church    and    was    stationed    at    Me- 


Rev.  William  T.  Mathis.  Pastor  of 
the  M.  E.  Church.  South,  was  born 
near  Woodlawn,  in  Jefferson  Coun- 
ty, Illinois,  January  2d,  1866.  His 
boyhood  was  spent  on  a  farm,  but 
at  the  age  of  14  his  parents  moved 
to  Centralia,  where  they  still  live. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  state,  converted  in 
1886,  joined  the  Conference  at  Ma- 
rion and  entered  the  ministry  in  the 
fall  of  189  4.  but  was  not  ordained 
until  September  27,   1896. 

His  first  charge  was  at  Dennison, 
where  he  remained  two  years.  Two 
years  at  Tower  Hill  and  three  at 
Casey  brings  him  to  Marion,  where 
he  is  now  serving  his  third  year.  He 
has  been  an  efficient  and  tireless 
worker  in  Conference  affairs,  serving 
repeatedly  on  all  important  commit- 
tees and  for  the  last  three  years  has 
been  its  Statistical  Secretary  and 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  its 
board  of  education. 

He  has  been  an  Odd  Fellow  for 
many  years  and  filled  all  important 
offices  in  that  order:   is  now  a  mem- 


CKADI'ATIXG    CLA.SS    OF    .MARIO.N    HIGH   SCHOOL. 
On    an    outing    at    Electric    Park.      Prof.    C.    C.    Denny   at    the   left. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS 


HOME  OF  ED.   E.   GILL, 
Contractor  and   Builder. 


tropolis,     where     lie     remained     for 
three  years. 

While  pastor  at  Metropolis,  on 
August  7,  1S65,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  L.  Bruner,  of  whom 
three  boys  were  born,  William 
Samuel  and  Fred,  of  whom  William 
alone  survives. 

Doctor  Thomson  was  married 
twice.  His  first  wife  died  while  he 
was  Chaplain  of  the  Penitentiary  at 
Chester,  and  he  was  united  to  Miss 
Emilie    Coigny,    at    Greenville,    111. 

Dr.  Thomson  has  for  a  period  of 
43  years  been  a  very  laborious, 
earnest  and  successful  man,  and 
like  all  the  itinerant  family  of  the 
M.  E.  Church,  has  had  many  sta- 
tions and  served  many  churches. 
The  following  are  the  principal 
charges  he  has  served:  Metropolis, 
Mound  City,  Anna,  Shawnee  Town, 
Cairo,  Jerseyville,  Alton,  Salem, 
Chaplain  of  the  Penitentiary  at 
Chester  for  three  years,  Greenville. 
Nashville,  Litchfield,  Alton  the  sec- 
ond time.  Flora,  Carbondale  and 
Marion,    October    1st,    1903. 

Always  ready  to  carry  his  end  of 
the  load  he  has  been  loaded  down 
with  committee  and  secretary  work 
to  the  easing  of  others,  .more  ro- 
bust than  he.  He  was  President  of 
the  Conference  Missionary  Society 
for  2  0  years  and  treasurer  of  t  he 
Board  of  Stewards  for  15  years: 
President  of  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee for  one  year  and  member  of  the 
Board  of  Examiners  for  thirty 
years.  He  organized  the  Epworth 
League  of  the  Alton  District  and 
was  its  president  from  1S87  to 
1895 — eight  years.  He  was  one  of 
the  delegates  to  the  International 
S.  S.  Association  at  Baltimore,  At- 
lanta and  St.  Louis,  and  after- 
wards to  the  World's  S.  S.  Conven- 
tion at  St.  Louis. 

He  belongs  to  the  St.   Omar  Com- 


mandary.  No.  41,  of  Knights  Tem- 
plar at  Litchfield,  111.,  an  !  is  its 
Past    Eminent    Commander. 


ELDEH   JOSEPH   J.   HARRIS 


Elder  Joseph  J.  Harris  is  the  son 
of  V.  G.  and  Martha  Harris,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Long.  They  were 
both  natives  of  Summit  County, 
Ohio,  where  they  still  live.  The 
subject  of  the  sketch  was  also  born 
there,  February  ISth,  1S53,  anl 
lived  with  his  parents,  following  the 
plow  until  2  3  years  old.  February 
2  4,  18  76,  he  married  Miss  Augusta 
Van  Voorhes.  of  Wood  County,  Ohio, 
and  rented  a  farm  of  his  father,  in- 
tending to  follow  the  business  as  his 
father    had    done    before    him.      But 


PiovideULe  bad  laid  out  a  very  dif- 
ferent career  tor  him,  and  he  was 
not   long  in  finding  his  proper  niche. 

He  had  fortunately  marrie  a 
faithful  Christian  woman,  who 
would  not  put  up  with  dancing  or 
the  desecration  of  the  Sabbath,  to 
which  he  was  inclined.  He  had  im- 
bibed infidel  principles  from  his 
father  and  his  associates  in  the 
neighborhood  and,  like  Gallio, 
"cared  for  none  of  the=e  things." 
His  wife  did,  though,  and  it  very 
soon  became  a  question  of  Bible  or 
no  Bible,  an  infidel  or  a  Christian 
home.  So  the  venerable  book  once 
more  took  a  sifting — and  conquere  \ 
A  couple  of  sermons  by  the  then 
p.ged  A.  B.  Green,  of  the  Christian 
Church  at  Akron,  Ohio,  completed 
the  work,  and  he  was  quickly  im- 
mersed into  the  name  of  Jesus  the 
Christ,  the  Son  of  the  Living  God. 
His  wife  was  already  a  member  of 
that  church,  having  been  baptized 
by  Wm.  Dawling  at  Freeport,  Ohio, 
and  the  now  harmonious  and  happy 
household  began  life  anew.  The 
son's  conversion,  however,  angered 
the  infidel  father,  who  felt  dis- 
grace \  and  severed  all  relations 
with  his  "misguided"  boy  and  his 
wife.  But  the  inspiration  and  zeal 
of  a  new  convert  was  on  the  young 
man,  and  he  at  once  began  to  pre- 
pare for  the  ministry. 

After  a  little  preliminary  school- 
ing he  entered  Bethany  College.  He 
would  have  completed  his  course  in 
1SS2  but  his  funos  gave  out,  and  he 
had  a  wife  to  look  after,  and  left 
school  to  enter  upon  his  life's  work. 

His  first  pastorate  was  with  the 
church  at  Milton,  Ohio,  where  he 
remained  a  year  only  and  moved  to 
Petersburg,  Michigan.  The  people 
there  were  having  a  hard  struggle 
for   a   living,   but  the  brave  and   de- 


OLUKED  BAPTIST   CHURCH. 


SOUXRXlk  (  i|-    WILLIAMSON   COUXTY,  ILLINOIS. 


\V.    W.    WEEOON. 


the    Vh 
Marion. 


istiaii 
llliioi^ 


Church    at 


KKSIUKXCE   OF   J.   M.    DOIH),    County    Clerk. 
Coiner  of  North  Market    Street    and   Boulevard. 


voted  young  minister  staid  by  them 
for  five  years,  although  he  received 
less  than  $100  for  his  services  dur- 
ing the  whole  time. 

He  then  moved  to  North  Royal- 
ton,  Ohio,  and  served  the  church 
there  for  two  years,  and  came  West 
and  settled  in  Southern  Illinois.  He 
spent  his  first  year  evangelizing  and 
then  took  the  church  at  DuQuoin. 
Here  he  remained  till  1896,  and 
had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  the 
church  grow  into  a  strong  and  pros- 
perous organization  with  a  new 
church  house  and  a  prosperous  Sun- 
day School  and  Christian  Endeavor. 
After  an  experimental  pastorate  at 
Bowlingreen.  Ohio,  of  one  year,  he 
took  charge  of  the  church  at  Marion, 
Illinois,  in  March,  1S98,  and  served 
successfully    for   two   years. 

He  then  took  up  missionary  work 
as  District  Evangelist  for  the  South- 
ern Illinois  Missionary  District  of 
his  church,  and  labored  successfully 
for  three  years.  Very  early  in  his 
career  he  became  an  active  and  zeal- 
ous Prohibitionist  on  Christian  prin- 
ciples, and  permeated  his  politics 
with  them  so  thoroughly  that  he 
soon  became  widely  known  in  that 
field.  He  attended  conventions  and 
exercised  all  his  rights  of  citizen- 
ship, and  exerted  a  wide  and  pow- 
erful   influence    in    practical    politics. 

In  1902  he  entered  into  the  em- 
ploy of  the  State  Prohibition  Com- 
mittee as  organizer,  and  has  been 
busily  engaged  in  the  practical  work 
all  over  the  State  ever  since.  His 
only  daughter,  Hattie  L.,  was  the 
wife  of  .lohn  S  Applegate,  who  had 
formed     a    co-partnership    with      her 


f::ther  in  the  dry  goods  business  in 
Marion,  and  under  the  firm  name  of 
Harris  &  Applegate  did  a  good  busi- 
ness in  their  line.  Mother  and 
daughter  rendered  goo.l  service  as 
clerks  and  the  father  was  left  to 
pursue  his  work  in  the  Christian 
and    Prohibition    field. 

However,  on  October  ISth,  of  the 
present  year,  an  uninvited  guest  en- 
tered their  home,  and  with  but  a 
few  days'  warning,  removed  John 
and  disturbed  all  their  plans.  This 
called  Mr.  Harris  home  at  once,  and 
he  is  now  busy  closing  up  the  busi- 
ness of  Harris  &  Applegate. 


\V.  W.  Weedon,  pastor  of  the 
Christian  Church  at  Marion,  was 
born  in  Columbia  County,  Ohio, 
December  2  3,  1S4  6.  He  acquired 
his  early  education  in  the  public 
school  of  Ohio,  afterward  attended 
school  in  Wayne  County,  Illinois, 
and  completed  his  education  in  the 
High  School  at  Fairfield,  111.  His 
parents  were  Samuel  and  Letitia 
(Farr)  Weedon,  who  also  were  na- 
tives of  Ohio,  and  came  to  Wayne 
County  in  1S60.  William  is  the  sec- 
ond child  of  the  family,  and  lived  at 
home  in  Wayne  County  until  the 
breaking  out  of  the  war,  when  he 
entered  the  service  as  a  member  of 
Co.  G.,  8th  Illinois  Infantry.  He 
served  one  year,  taking  part  in  the 
battles  of  Spanish  Fort,  Fort  Blak- 
ley  an  1  the  engagements  of  the  Mo- 
bile Campaign.  His  wife  was  Miss 
Carrie  Van  Fossen,  daughter  of  Dr. 
T.  and  Christina  Van  Fossen.  To 
this  union  were  born  four  children, 
two  sons  and  two  daughters,  Fred 
O.,  Lulu  Mable,  Frank  L.  and  Sarah 
Edna. 

In  1878  Mr.  Weedon  was  or- 
dained and  entered  the  ministry  of 
the  Christian  Church,  accepting  as 
his  first  pastorate  the  church  at 
Brownstown,  Fayette  County.  Since 
then  he  has  served  the  churches  in 
Edenburg,  South  Fork,  Assumption, 
Blue  Moun1,  Barnett,  Taylorville, 
Williamsville  and  Marion.  He  was 
located  at  Taylorville  12  years:  4 
years  at  Williamsville  and  has  now 
been  at  Marion  two  years.  The 
church  at  Taylorville  was  a  very 
weak  one  when  he  began  his  work 
there,  but  he  built  it  up  to  a  meiu- 
ebrship   of    4oo    and   erected   the   Da- 


T.  .1.   HIXKLEVS    RESIDEXCE. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


Lodges,  Societies  and 
OrgaLfiizaLtions 


THE  FAMILY   GROUP  OF   JUDGE   GEO.    W.    YOUNG. 
Names   reading  from   left  to  right.    Top    row — Mrs.    Rochester   and    Mrs. 
Trevor.      2nd    row — Miss    Eva   Young;    .Judge   and   Mrs.   Young. 


vis  Memorial  Church  at  a  cost  of 
$15,000. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F., 
an  J  has  served  three  terms  as  Grand 
Chaplain;  was  Noble  Grand  for  three 
terms  and  representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  K.  P's.,  and  Past  Chancellor 
of  Monitor  Lodge,  No.  236,  Marion; 
is  also  Senior  Deacon  of  the  G.  A. 
R.  at  Marion.  He  is  a  member  of 
A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  Friendship  Lodge, 
No.   S9. 

As  minority  candidate  of  the  Re- 
publican party  he  was  honored  with 
election  to  the  3  7th  Illinois  General 
Assembly.  He  held  a  position  on 
five  important  committees;  Insur- 
ance, Library,  Sanitary,  Soldiers  and 
Orphans'  Home  and  Military,  and 
made  one  of  the  nominating  speeches 
in   favor  of   Richard   .1.   Oglesby. 

He  is  in  the  prime  of  life,  full  of 
vigor  and  enthusiasm,  is  an  enter- 
taining speaker  and  lecturer  and  an 
excellent  preacher.  He  is  held  in 
high  regard  in  the  community  where 
he  lives,  both  in  the  church  and  out 
of   it. 


Robert  Sparks,  vice-president;  Miss 
Bessie  Adkins,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer;   Miss  Verna   Lee,   organist. 


Various     Societies     Connected     with 
the   Missionary   Baptist   Cliurch. 

The  Ladies'  Aid  Society — Mrs.  T. 
J.  Youngblood,  president;  Mrs.  An- 
na Williams,  vice-president;  Mrs.  N. 
W.  Martin,  secretary;  Mrs.  J.  A. 
Heck,  treasurer.  Meet  Thursday 
evening,    March    17th. 

Woman's  Missionary  Circle — Mrs. 
Clara  Brown,  president;  Mrs.  Anna 
Williams,  vice-president;  Mrs.  N. 
W.  Martin,  secretary:  Mrs.  Dr. 
Brown,  treasurer.  Meet  first  Thurs- 
day after  first  Sunday,  in  afternoon. 

Baptist  Young  People's  Union — 
Mrs.    N.    W.    Martin,    president;     Mr. 


The    Ladies's    Aid    Society. 

The  Ladies'  Aid  Society  of  the 
Marion  Baptist  Church  was  organ- 
ized November  9,  1S9S.  Its  object 
is  to  form  a  closer  or  more  sym- 
pathetic union  of  the  members  of 
the  church,  thus  enabling  them  to 
better  understand  each  other's 
needs,  also  the  needs  of  others  by 
whom   they   are   surrounded. 

Furthermore,  to  assist  the  church 
financially.  During  its  existence 
much  has  been  accomplished  along 
these  lines.  Frequently  the  society 
contributes  to  the  treasury  of  the 
church  to  assist  in  repairing  the 
house   or   meeting   other   obligations. 

The  Woman's  Mission   Circle. 

The  Woman's  Mission  Circle  of 
Marion  Church  was  organized  Nov- 
ember 9,  1S98.  It  is  a  union  So- 
ciety, being  auxiliary  to  both  The 
Women's  Baptist  Home  Mission  So- 
ciety and  the  Woman's  Baptist  For- 
eign Mission  Society  of  the  West, 
the  former  having  for  its  object 
the  enlightenment  and  christianiza- 
tion  of  the  unenlightened  portions 
of  the  inhabitants  of  North  America, 
whether  native  born  or  emigrants. 
The  field  of  operations  is  chiefly  in 
the  homes  among  women  and  chil- 
dren, a  work  which  women  only 
can    so    successfully    accomplish. 

The  latter  does  similar  work  in 
foreign  lands  through  the  instru- 
mentality   of    lady    missionaries. 

Marion  Circle  remits  quarterly  to 
the  two  parent  societies,  dividing 
the  amount  equally  between  the 
two. 


Grand  Hrmy  of  the  Republic. 

By    Judge   Geo.    W.    Young. 

The  history  of  the  organization 
and  early  growth  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Illinois  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  is  the  early  hiscory  of  the 
(Order  itself.  To  this  Department, 
Illinois,  belongs  the  distinguished 
honor  of  having  upon  its  roll  the 
fi,rst  comra  e  ever  mustered  into 
the  Order,  and  within  its  limits  was 
organized  the  first  Post,  and  here 
was  held  the  first  Department  En- 
campment. 

The  idea  of  organizing  the  ex- 
soldiers  and  sailors  into  a  National 
Organization  was  first  formulated  by 
Major  B.  F.  Stephenson,  of  the  14th 
111.  Inf.  Vol.  He  seemed  to  foresee 
the  immense  proportions  tor  good 
to  which  the  Organization  might  be 
expanded,  and  gave  much  thought  to 
the  working  out  of  the  details. 

In  March,  1866,  by  arrangement. 
Rev.  W.  J.  Rutledge,  of  the  14th  111. 
Inf.,  met  Major  Stephenson  in 
Springfield,  Illinois,  and  spent  some 
days  in  formulating  a  ritual  for  the 
proposed  Order.  The  basic  princi- 
ples were  Fraternity,  Charity  and 
Loyalty.  Conferences  were  had  with 
other  comrades  in  Springfield, 
among  whom  were  men  who  had 
won  honors  in  the  field  and  whose 
names  became  eminent  in  civil  life. 
The  following  are  known  to  have 
participated  in  those  conferences, 
which  resulted  in  the  founding  of 
the  Order  and  were  the  first  to  be 
oblig.''1ed  in  the  Grand  Army  work; 
Major  Ti.  F.  Stephenson,  Chaplain 
''^'illiam  J.  Rutledge,  Col.  John  M. 
Snyder,  Dr.  James  Hamilton.  JIajor 
Robert  M.  \\'oods.  Major  Robert  Al- 
len, Col.  Martin  Flood,  Col.  Daniel 
Grass,  Col.  Edward  Prince,  Capt. 
John  S.  Phelps,  Capt.  John  A.  Light- 
foot,  Col.  B.  F.  Smith.  Major  A.  A. 
North,  Capt.  Henry  E.  Howe  and 
Col.  B.  F.   Hawkes. 

The  first  rituals  were  printed  by 
the  proprietors  of  the  Decatur 
Tribune,  who,  with  their  employees, 
had  all  been  in  the  service.  This 
rircumstance  led  to  the  organization 
of  the  first  Post  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  at  Decatur,  on 
the  6th  day  of  April,  1S66,  being 
known  as  Decatur  Post  No.  1,  with 
the  following  Charter  members: 

T.  C.  Pugh,  Geo.  R.  Steele.  J.  W. 
Routh,  Joseph  Prior,  J.  H.  Nale,  J. 
T.  Bishop.  G.  H.  Dunning.  B.  F.  Sib- 
ley, M.  F.  Kanan.  C.  Reibsame,  I.  N. 
Coltrim  and  Aquilla  Toland.  M.  F. 
Kanan  was  the  first  Post  Command- 
er and  G.  R.  Steele,  Adjutant.  The 
Po'st  WPS  mustered  and  officers  in- 
stalled    bv    Maiov    Stenhenson.       On 


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.  MAKIOX   HIGH   SCHOOL   FOOT   BALL   TEAM 

CHAMPIONS  OF   SOUTHERN   ILLINOIS 

From  left  to  right,  top  row:— John  Dodd,  Tom  Jordan,  Ed  Nance,  Dixon  Oberdorfer,  Orrin  Cash,  Manager. 
2d  Row:— F.  Barnes,  Ramon  Shaw,  Asa  Davis,  Lester  Cash.     3d  Row— Joe  Mead,  Clyde  Hunter,  Capt.,  Jno.  Lines. 


the  first  day  of  April,  1S66,  the 
first  general  order  ever  issued  from 
a  Grand  Army  Headquarters  was  is- 
sued as  follows: 

"Headquarters     Department    of    Illi- 
nois,  Grand   Army   of   the   Repub- 
lic,     Adjutant      General's      OflSce, 
Springfield.    Illinois,    April    1,    '66. 
General    Order   No.    1. 

The  following  named  officers  are 
announced  for  duty  at  these  Head- 
quarters: Colonel  Jules  C.  Webber. 
Aide-de-Camp  and  Chief  of  Staff, 
Major  Robert  M.  Woods,  Adjutant 
General,  Colonel  John  M.  Snyder, 
Quartermaster  General,  Lieutenant 
John  S.  Phelps,  Aide-de-Camp,  Cap- 
tain John  A.  Lightfoot,  Assistant 
Adjutant   General. 

By  Order  of 
B.   F.   STEPHENSON, 

Commanding   Department. 
ROB'T.    M.    WOODS, 

Adjutant   General." 
The  said  Robert  M.  Woods  is  now 
the    Department    Conimanler   of    the 
State  of   Illinois.     The   first   Conven- 
tion   or  Encampment   of    the   Grand 


Army  of  the  Republic  was  held  at 
Springfield  July  12,  1866.  At  this 
Encampment  the  Department  of  Illi- 
nois was  formally  organized,  and 
Department  officers  were  elected; 
General  John  M.  Palmer  was  elected 
First  Department  Commander, 
which  position  he  held  for  three  suc- 
cessive years.  At  this  Convention 
the  following  resolution  was  unani- 
mously  adopted: 

"Whereas,  We,  the  members  of 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
recognize  in  Major  B.  F.  Stephen- 
son, of  Springfield,  Illinois,  the  head 
an  1  front   of  the  Organization,  be  it 

Therefore,  Resolved,  That  for  the 
energy,  loyalty  and  perseverence 
masifested  in  organizing  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  he  is  entitled 
to  the  gratitude  of  all  brave  men: 
and  that  the  soldiers  and  his  com- 
rades hereby  tender  him  our  thanks, 
and  pledge  him  our  friendship  at  all 
times   and   under  all   circumstances." 

The  work  of  organizing  Posts  and 
Departments  from  that  time  on  went 
forwarl   very   rapidly.        During  the 


year  1S66,  there  were  246  Posts  or- 
ganized in  the  State  of  Illinois;  De- 
partments were  organized  in  all  of 
the  Eastern  and  Middle  Western 
States,  and  up  to  1S72,  when  the  Or- 
der reached  its  highest  maximum  in 
numbers.  After  the  year  1872,  the 
veterans  seemed  to  lose  interest  in 
the  Order,  but  it  was  again  revived 
in   1883. 

Since  that  time,  its  growth  has 
been  somewhat  steady  and  station- 
ary, consistent  with  the  great  loss  of 
membership  by  death  and  otherwise, 
still  it  is  a  strong  factor  in  the 
moulding  and  shaping  of  public  sen- 
timent in  the  Unitel  States  today. 

At  the  National  Encampment  held 
in  November.  1866,  the  following 
was  promulgated  as  the  objects  and 
results  sought  to  be  attained  by  the 
organization  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic: 

"1.  The  preservation  of  those  kind 
and  fraternal  feelings  which  have 
bound  together,  with  the  strong 
cords  of  love  and  affection,  the  sol- 
diers and  sailors  who  have  stood  to- 


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SiX'XRXIR  (')F   W  II.IIA.MSOX   COL'X'TY,  ILLINOIS. 


TRACK    TEAM    OF    THE   MARION    HIGH    SCHOOL.   1904. 

Reading  from  left  to  right,  top  row:— Lawrence  Sanders,  Mgr.,  John  Dodd,   Harry  Roach,    Albert  Riedell,   Claude 

Phillips,  Hester  Davis,  RoUa  Townsend,  Trainer.     Second  row:— Asa  Davis,  Frank  Mitchell,  Herman  Davis, 

Herbert  Sparks,  Ed  Nance.     Third  Row:— lohn  Lines,  Will  Cox,  Joe  Mead. 


gether  in  many  battles,  sieges,  en- 
gagements  and   marches." 

"2.  For  the  establishment  and 
defense  of  the  rights  of  the  late  sol- 
diers and  sailors  of  the  United 
States  morally,  socially  and  polit- 
ically, with  a  view  to  inculcate  a 
proper  appreciation  of  their  services 
to  their  country,  and  to  a  recognition 
of  such  services  and  claims  by  the 
American   people." 

"3.  The  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public is  organized  to  maintain  in 
civil  life  those  great  principles  for 
which  it  stood  in  arms  under  the 
National  flag;  it  stands  pledged  to 
crush  out  active  treason,  to  advance 
and  support  active  loyalty,  to  secure 
sound  constitutional  liberty  to  all 
men,  and  to  vindicate  everywhere, 
and  at  all  times,  the  full  and  com- 
plete rights  of  every  loyal  American 
citizen  against  all  combinations  of 
force  or  fraud  that  may  attempt  to 
deny  or  deprive  them  of  such 
rights." 

"4.  To  maintain  true  allegiance 
to  the  United  States  of  America, 
based  upon  a  paramount  respect  for. 
p.nd  fidelity  to.  its  Constitution  and 
Laws:  to  discountenance  whatever 
tends  to  weaken  loyalty,  incites  to 
insurrection,  treason  or  rebellion,  or 


in  any  manner  impairs  the  efficiency 
and  permanency  of  our  tree  institu- 
tions: and  to  encourage  the  spread 
of  universal  liberty,  equal  rights 
and  justice  to  all  men  throughout 
the  domain  of  the  United  States  of 
America." 

The  first  Post  organized  in  Wil- 
liamson County  was  organized  at 
Crab  Orchard,  seven  miles  east  of 
Marion.  September  11.  ISGG.  Its 
number  was  94,  with  the  following 
charter  members:  William  A.  Mc- 
Haney,  Moody  P.  Haines,  John  Hud- 
dleson.  Andrew  M.  McHaney.  Wil- 
liam P.  Furlong.  Richard  H.  McHa- 
ney, Solomon  D.  Thompson..  Fran- 
cis M.  Norman,  Lewis  ,T.  McHaney. 
.John  H.  Davis,  Duncan  N.  Pritchett. 
Christopher  C.  Tarpley  and  James 
Bullock.  Geo.  W.  Young,  of  Ma- 
rion, was  the  assistant  mustering 
officer  at  the  organization  of  this 
Post. 

There  was  also  organized  a  Post 
at  Union  Grove  Church  and  one  at 
Marion  in  September  and  October. 
1S66.  but  the  names  and  numbers 
have  not  been  preservel.  The  orig- 
inal Post  at  Crab  Orchard  went  out 
of  existence  in  1871.  and  another 
Post  was  organized  by  the  same 
name,    but    numbered    51S,    July    1, 


1SS.5.  Another  Post  was  also  or- 
ganized at  Corinth  in  1868.  but 
went  out  of  existence  in  1880,  and 
another  Post  was  organized  at  the 
same  place  April  12,  1884.  The 
names  of  the  original  Charter  mem- 
bers of  the  Corinth  Post  were  as 
follows:  J.  L.  Roberts,  M.  S.  Strike, 
James  Chadwell,  T.  M.  Dorris,  W. 
W.  Weaver,  Harvey  Isaacs,  Scion  M. 
Otey,  James  A.  Smiley,  W.  T.  Gill, 
James  A.  Dorris.  D.  A.  Stilley,  H.  W. 
Biers.  Benjamin  S.  Weaver.  William 
Robinson,  G.  W.  DeWoody  and  Ben- 
jamin B.  Griggs.  Capt.  Sample  G. 
Parks,  of  DuQuoin.  was  the  institut- 
ing officer. 

We  have  not  the  record  of  the 
names  of  the  original  charter  mem- 
bers of  all  the  Posts  in  the  County, 
but  the  following  is  a  correct  list  of 
the  Grand  Army  Posts  as  they  now 
exist  in  the  County.  Some  of  them 
are  rather  weak  in  point  of  num- 
bers: some  of  them  are  in  good 
working    condition. 

J.  L.  Parks.  Post  No.  518,  Crab 
Orchard.  July  1.  1885:  Cartervllle, 
2:? 7,  Cartervllle.  May  S,  18  83:  Ma- 
rion. 319.  Marion.  August  2.  1883: 
Corinth,  434,  Corinth,  April  12, 
1884:  Dollins,  562,  Johnston  City, 
March     24.     1886:     James     Adkins, 


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SHOP    OF   XOLL  AND    WILLIAMS. 
Contractors  and   Builders. 


655.  Cottage  Home.  February  8, 
1S8S;  B.  D.  Caplinger,  677.  Creal 
Springs,  September  3,  1889;  Herrin, 
797,   Herrin,   November   26,    1903. 

Total  number  of  Posts  in  the 
County  is  eight,  with  a  membership 
of  two  hundred.  This  shows  that 
not  more  than  fifty  per  cent,  of  the 
old  veterans  residing  in  the  County 
are  members  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic.  There  have  been  four 
Camps  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans  or- 
ganized in  the  County,  but  the  one 
at  Cottage  Home  is  the  only  one  now 
working  under  a  valid  Charter. 
There  are  two  Circles  of  the  Ladies 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
one  at  Herrin  and  one  at  Marion. 

The  resolutions  and  the  statements 
of  the  objects  and  the  results  sought 
to  be  attained  by  these  patriotic  or- 
ganizations, as  set  out  in  the  first 
part  of  this  article,  fully  explain 
why  these  Societies  came  into  exist- 
ence. For  more  than  thirty-eight 
years  this  association  of  veterans  of 
the  War  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union  has  been  in  existence:  and  it 
can  be  truthfully  said  that  its  in- 
fluence has  always  been  on  the  side 
of  loyalty  to  law  and  the  uphoMing 
of  the  powers  of  the  regular  con- 
stituted authorities  of  the  Govern- 
ment, Municipal.  State  and  National. 
And  in  the  centuries  to  come,  gene- 
rations yet  unborn  will  read  of  the 
organization  known  and  called  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic;  and 
Historians  will  give  this  organized 
body  of  ex-Union  soldiers  an  exalted 
place  in  the  temple  of  fame  among 
the  records  of  the  great  men.  who, 
by  their  precept  and  example,  taught 
the  world  the  true  lesson  of  popular 
self-government  by  enforcement  of. 
and  obedience  to.  the  laws  of  the 
land  as  enacted  and  interpreted  by 
the  lawful  powers  under  the  Consti- 
tution. 


Che  H.  f.  &  H.  M. 

By  Geo.  W.  Young. 

The  Society  of  the  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons  is  the  oldest 
and  earliest  established  fraternal  so- 
ciety in  the  County.  The  first  Lodge 
of  this  ancient  and  honorable  Order 
was  established  at  Marion,  the 
County  seat,  October  Sth,  IS 50,  v.ith 
the  following  charter  members: 
Roljert  Marion.  Joseph  Hopper,  Wil- 
liam N.  Eubanks,  James  Askew, 
James  M.  Can.pbell,  Joseph  Huff- 
stutler,  Robert  Hopper  and  Robert 
M.   Hundley. 

Robert  Marion  was  the  first  Wor- 
shipful Master.  Joseph  Hopper  the 
first.  Senior  Warden,  William  H.  Eu- 
banks.  first   Junior   Warden.      It   had 


an  early  and  successful  career,  mauy 
of    the    leading    and    influential    citi- 
zens of  the  County  were  members  of 
this  lodge,  and  it  h.^s  enrolled  upon 
its   records   a    large   per   cent    of    the 
early    settlers    who    gave    force    and 
chai-acter   to   the   early   progress  and 
development   of   the   County.        This 
was  the  only  Masonic   Lodge  in    the 
County  from  ISoO  to   1S65,  a  period 
of   15   years.      Then  on   October   4th 
1865,   Blazing   Star   Lodge.   No.    458, 
was  organized  at  Crab  Orchard,  and 
the     next    year,     October    3d,     1866, 
Andrew    Jackson    Lodge,     No.      4S7, 
was  established  at  Corinth.  Northern 
Pi-ecinct:   the  next  Lodge  was  estab- 
lished  at   Herrin's   Prairie,   No.    693, 
October    1st,    1872.         So    it    would 
seem   from   the  history  of   Fraternal 
Societies  in   Williamson   County  that 
there   were   but   three   lodges   of   the 
long    established    Fraternal    Societies 
in  the  County  up  to   18  69.  when  the 
Odd   Fellows   established   a   lodge   at 
Marion.        The   next    Masonic   Lodge 
was  organized  at  Chapel  Hill.  Grassy 
Precinct,  No.  719,  October  7th,  1874. 
The    next    was    Lake    Creek    Lodge. 
No.  729,  at  Johnston  City   (this  was 
long  before  Johnston  City  was  estab- 
lished)    October     Sth,     1875.        The 
next     was     Williamson     Lodge,     No. 
802,    October    6th,    1891,    at    Carter- 
ville.  and  the  next  was  Creal  Springs, 
No.      817,    chartered     October     Sth. 
1892,  making  a  total  of  eight  lodges 
in  Williamson  County,  with  a  mem- 
bership  and  standing  as  follows: 

Fellowship  Lodge.  No.  89,  at  Ma- 
rion, chartered  October  8.  1850; 
number   of   members,    8  5. 

Blazing  Star  Lodge.  No.  45S.  at 
Crab  Orchard,  chartered  October  4, 
18  65:    number   of   members,    28. 

Andrew  Jackson  Lodge,  No.  4  87, 
at  Corinth,  chartered  October  3^ 
18  66;    number   of   members,   22. 


At    Electric    Park. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


MARION  STEAM  MARBLE  WORKS. 

C.  A.  Gent,  President;   T.  V.  Williams,    Vice-President    and    Foreman    of 

shop:   F.  C.  Turner  and  J.  T.  Cash,   marble    cutters;    Albert    E.    Sanders, 

Salesman;  Albert  T.  Lam,  Teamster;     W.    O.    Potter,    Supt.    and    General 

Manager. 


Herrin's  Prairie  Loige,  No.  C9  3, 
at  Herrin,  chartered  October  1, 
1S72;    number    of    members,    50. 

Chapel  Hill  Lodge,  No.  719,  at 
Wolf  Creek,  chartered  October  7, 
1874;    number   of  members,   44. 

Lake  Creek  Lodge,  No.  7  29,  at 
Johnston  City,  chartered  October  5. 
IS 75;    number   of    members,    48. 

Williamson  Lodge,  No.  8  02,  at 
Carterville,  chartered  October  6, 
1891;    number  of  members,   60. 

Creal  Springs  Lodge,  No.  817,  at 
Creal  Springs,  chartered  October  5, 
189  2;    number  of  members,   32. 

Total  membership  of  the  eight 
Lodges  in  the  County  at  the  present 
is  367.  There  has  been  no  Lodge 
organized  in  Williamson  County  for 
12  years,  but  it  will  be  noticed  that 
the  Order  has  established  lodges  at 
all  the  available  points,  perhaps, 
that  are  capable  of  supporting  a 
Lodge  in  the  County.  Marion  Chap- 
ter, No.  100,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  at 
Marion,  was  chartered  October  3, 
1866,  and  is  the  only  lodge  of  Chap- 
ter Masons  in  the  County. 

The  Masonic  Order  is  the  oldest 
Fraternal  Society  in  the  United 
States,  and  it  is  claimed  to  be  the 
most  ancient,  or  perhaps  the  oldest, 
in  the  world.  It  has  come  down  to 
us  through  the  centuries,  and  while 
there  are  many  other  Societies  that 
do  a  vast  amount  of  good  toward  dis- 
seminating the  principles  of  charity 
and  benevolence,  yet  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  adheres  more  closely  to 
its  ancient  landmarks  and  mode  of 
procedure  than  any  other  society  in 
the  world. 

Tt  Is  not  the  province  or  scope  of 
this  article  to  enter  upon  a  disserta- 
tion of  the  many  advantages,  and 
the  great  good  which  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  has  accomplished  in  all 
the  civilized  countries,  but  we  give 
the  foregoing  as  the  brief  history  of 


its  beginning,  progress  and  develop- 
ment in  Williamson  County.  It  has 
among  its  members  some  of  the 
most  intelligent,  wealthy  and  in- 
fluential citizens  in  the  County,  and 
exercises  an  influence  of  great  good 
in  every  community  where  It  is  lo- 
cated. 


Kntgbta  of  Pythias. 

By  Judge  Geo.  W.  Young. 

This  young  and  progressive  Soci- 
ety is  entitled  to  honorable  recogni- 
tion in  the  history  of  Fraternal  So- 
cieties in  Williamson  County.  It  is 
peculiarly  of  American  origin. 
This  Order  was  founded  February 
19.  1864,  at  Washington,  D.  C,  by 
Justus    H.    Rathbone.  At    a    time 


when  "war  was  in  the  heart  of  man 
and  sorrow  was  in  the  home,"  when 
from  ocean  to  ocean,  and  from  lake 
to  gulf  the  people  of  our  country 
were  engaged  in  scenes  of  carnage 
and  death  in  the  terrible  struggle  of 
internecine  war.  It  was  at  this 
period  in  our  nation's  history  that 
Justus  H.  Rathbone,  the  great  phil- 
anthropist and  lover  of  mankind, 
saw  in  Grecian  History,  in  the  story 
of  Damon  and  Pythias,  the  germ  of 
an  Order  that  should  prove  a  power 
in  i.ispelling  the  wrath  of  sectional 
strife  and  restoring  the  hearts  of 
men  to  a  basis  of  universal  Brother- 
hood, having  for  its  motto,  "Friend- 
ship. Charity  and  Benevolence." 
From  a  small  beginning  forty-one 
years  ago,  this  Order  has  made 
rapid  strides,  increasing  in  both 
numbers  and  wealth,  until  today  it 
is  reckoned  as  one  among  the  lead- 
ing Fraternal  Societies  in  the  United 
States.  It  numbers  among  its  mem- 
bers some  of  the  leading  and  promi- 
nent men  of  the  State  and  Nation, 
both    secular    and    divine. 

There  are  four  lodges  of  this  Or- 
der in  Williamson  County.  Follow- 
ing we  give  the  date  of  institution, 
the  name  of  the  instituting  Officer 
and  the  number  of  members  and  the 
names  of  the  first  set  of  Officers  of 
each  lodge; 

Monitor  Lo;lge,  No.  236.  Marion, 
instituted  on  the  5th  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1890,  by  Past  Chancellor 
James  Alexander.  The  Officers  were 
as  follows:  William  C.  Willeford, 
Past  Chancellor;  Herman  Spieldoch, 
Chancellor  Commander;  Lorenzo  D. 
Hartwell,  Vice  Chancellor:  John  M. 
Bainbridge.  Prelate;  James  C.  Mit- 
chell, Master  of  Exchequer;  Levi  B. 
Casey,  Master  of  Finance;  Ed  M. 
Spiller.  Keeper  of  Records  and 
Seal:    William   H.   Warder.   Master  at 


RESIDENCE   OF  CALEB    HOLLAND. 


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Arms:  Charles  W.  Bainbrilge,  Inner 
Guard;  William  S.  Washburn,  Outer 
Guard.  Number  of  members  uow 
142. 

Liberty  Lodge,  No.  252,  at  Carter- 
ville,  instituted  on  the  5th  day  of 
June,  1S90,  by  Grand  Chancellor 
James  H.  Kellogg.  The  Officers  were 
as  follows:  A.  K.  Elles,  Past  Chan- 
cellor: R.  H.  H.  Hampton.  Chancel- 
lor Commander:  John  Hadfleld,  Vice 
Chancellor:  Marion  Stocks,  Prelate: 
Mark  Carter,  Master  of  Exchequer: 
James  Payne,  Master  of  Finance:  B. 
L.  Washburn,  Keeper  of  Records  and 
Seal:  W.  H.  Gunster,  Master  at 
Arms:  John  Biby,  Inner  Guard:  Jeff 
Cox,  Outer  Guard.  Number  of 
members   now,    105. 

Williamson  County  Lodge,  No. 
596,  Herrin,  instituted  on  the  29th 
day  of  May,  19(m:i,  by  Past  Chancel- 
lor Joseph  E.  Kelley.  The  Officers 
were  as  follows:  W.  H.  For],  Chan- 
cellor Commander;  Pat  Gillooly, 
Vice  Chancellor;  Charles  Hagler, 
Prelate;  John  W.  Mayor,  Master  of 
work:  Horace  Henry,  Keeper  of 
Records  and  Seal;  Emery  Whitaker. 
Master  of  Finance;  G.  W.  Gosnell, 
Master  of  Exchequer;  Luther  Clem, 
Master  at  Arms;  W.  M.  Stone,  Inner 
Guard;  J.  B.  Sizemore,  Outer  Guard. 
Number   of   members   now,    107. 

Scott  Lodge,  No.  619,  Johnston 
City,  instituted  on  the  3rd  day  of 
April,  1902,  by  Past  Chancellor  John 
Wallace.  The  Officers  were  as  fol- 
lows: P.  W.  Duncan,  Chancellor 
Commander:  Guy  Barlow,  Vice 
Chancellor;  Logan  Fultz,  Prelate; 
Albert  Wagoner,  Master  of  Work;  E. 
E.  Eubanks,  Keeper  of  Records  and 


NEW   PROCESS   LAUNDRY. 


Seal:  Charles  Cla;-k,  Master  of  Fi- 
nance: Henry  Smith,  Master  of  Ex- 
chequer: John  Wickershaw,  Master 
at  Arms;  Charles  Clayton,  Inner 
Guard;  Wash  Leigh,  Cuter  Guard; 
Samuel  W.  Maguire,  Fast  Chancel- 
lor; George  E.  Wilburn,  Past  Chan- 
cellor: Joseph  Barlow%  Past  Chan- 
cellor. Number  of  members  now, 
41. 

Fourteen  years  ago  the  first   lodge 
was    instituted    in    Marion.  Since 

then  three  others  have  been  estab- 
lished as  above  set  forth.  At  the 
present  time  they  have  a  total  mem- 
bership in  the  County  of  395,  with 
an  aggregate  accumulation  of  money 


RESIDENCE    OF    MRS.    SARAH    SNYDER. 
South  Market  Street. 


an  1  property  of  over  $s0o0.on.  They 
have  a  well  regulated  system  of  sick 
and  funeral  benefits,  and  provide  for 
their  sick  and  the  needy,  and  the 
w'idow  and  orphans  of  their  mem- 
bers with  substantial  financial  as- 
sistance. 

The  Knights  of  Pythias,  like  all 
other  Fraternal  Societies,  has  had  its 
drawbacks  and  imposters,  but  it 
stands  upon  a  high  moral  plane  and 
teaches  pure  morals  and  practical 
charity  and  benevolence,  and  the  ele- 
vation of  human  character.  It  is  in- 
tensely American,  all  its  ceremonials 
being  conducted  in  the  American 
language.  As  a  secret  Order  it  has 
nothing  to  do  with  religion  or  poli- 
tics or  anything  sectarian,  yet,  it 
teaches  the  highest  principles  of  loy- 
alty, patriotism  and  love  of  our  coun- 
try, and  a  veneration  for  religion 
and  our  common  Christianity.  It  is 
certainly  an  institution  calculated  to 
do  much  good  in  every  community 
where  a  lodge  exists,  and  is  one 
among  the  great  moral  forces  which 
bind  our  people  together. 


Odd  fcUowsbtp    in    Cdtlliamson 
Countj'. 

By  Judge  Geo.   W.   Young. 

The  first  Lodge  of  the  Independent 
Or'er  of  Odd  Fellows  that  was 
established  in  Williamson  County 
was  Williamson  Lodge,  No.  392.  It 
was  instituted  May  27th,  1869,  by 
Samuel  A.  Flagler,  Acting  Grand 
Master,  assisted  by  the  following 
brothers  from  Carbondale  Lodge,  No. 
2  33:  J.  Boyd  Richart,  Deputy  Grand 
Master;  Thos.  J.  Belcher,  Grand  War- 
den; A.  G.  Shepart,  Grand  Secretary: 
Chas.  Martin,  Grand  Treasurer,  Jos. 
Weaver,  Grand  Marshal;  Ed  Nor- 
berry.  Grand  Conductor,  and  J.  D. 
White,  Grand  Guardian.  The  Char- 
ter members  were:   S.  W.  S.  Fribble, 


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SOIA'ENIR   OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


J.   W.   WILLEFORDS    MACHINE    SHOP. 


Pierce  L.  Jeniison,  David  M.  Fligoi-, 
James  O.  Bagwell  and  Jas.  M.  Jemi- 
son.  S.  W.  S.  Pribble  was  nist  Noble 
Grand  of  the  Lodge:  Pierce  L.  Jenii- 
son, first  Vice  Grand:  David  M.  Fli- 
gor,  first  Secretary,  and  James  M. 
Jemison,  Treasurer. 

On  the  night  of  the  institution 
only  two  members  were  initiated. 
They  were  William  H.  Eubanks  and 
John  B.  Willeford.  No  other  mem- 
bers were  admitted  until  June  26th, 
when  Dr.  Augustus  N.  Lodge  was  ad- 
mitted by  card.  On  July  3rd,  Lo- 
renzo D.  Hartwell  and  Geo.  W.  Wil- 
leford were  admitted  by  initiation; 
July  10th,  Daniel  A.  Davis  was  in- 
itiated; July  17th,  Geo.  W.  Young 
was  admitted  by  initiation;  July  31st 
Edward  H.  Bishop  was  admitted  as 
an  ancient  Odd  Fellow:  November 
27th,  David  V.  Sanders  was  admit- 
ted by  deposit  of  card;  December 
18th,  Caleb  T.  Holland  was  admitted 
by  initiation.  This  completes  the 
history  and  work  of  the  new  and 
first  Odd  Fellows  Lodge  in  the 
County  up  to  the  close  of  the  year 
1S69,  showing  that  for  the  first  sev- 
en months  of  its  existence  only  sev- 
en had  been  admitted  by  initiation, 
two  by  deposit  of  card  and  one  as 
an  ancient  Odd  Fellow,  making  a 
total  membership  of  the  Lodge,  at 
the  close  of  the  year,  and  the  first 
seven  months  of  its  existence,  of  only 
fifteen  members. 

Daniel  A.  Davis,  the  South  Side 
Baker,  has  held  continuous  member- 
ship in  the  Lodge  since  July  10th. 
1869,  being  the  fifth  member  initi- 
ated. Geo.  W.  Young,  Lawyer,  has 
held  continuous  membership  in  the 
Lodge  since  July  17th,  1869,  being 
the  sixth  member  initiated,  being  3.5 
years  in  July,  1904.  These  two 
members  are  the  only  ones  remain- 
ing of  the  Old  Guard.  They  have 
never  been  in  arrears  for  dues  at 
any    time    since    they    became    mem- 


bers, and  neither  one  of  them  has 
ever  drawn  any  sick  benefits  out  of 
the  Treasury  of  the  Lodge.  Geo.  W. 
Young  has  made  some  reputation  as 
an  Odd  Fellow  by  being  a  member 
of  the  State  Grand  Lodge  for  the 
last  thirty-one  years,  and  has  held 
several  positions  and  served  upon 
several  Committees  in  that  body. 

The  general  trend  and  history  of 
Williamson  Lodge,  No.  39  2,  has  been 
somewhat  in  keeping  with  the  first 
seven  months  of  its  existence.  It  has 
never  been  given  to  much  show  or 
boasting,  but  has  quietly  pursued  the 
even  tenor  of  its  way,  at  all  times 
trying  to  carry  out  the  fundamental 
principles  of  the  Order,  "We  com- 
mand you  to  visit  the  sick,  relieve 
the    distressed,    bury   the    dead,    pro- 


tect   and    educate    the    orphan,     and 
rare   for   the   widow." 

This  Lodge  met  in  1869  and  fitted 
up  a  hall  in  the  third  story  of  Bain- 
bridge  Brick  Block,  on  the  West 
side  of  the  public  square,  where  it 
continued  to  meet  until  1883,  when 
it  fitted  up  a  hall  in  what  was  then 
called  the  Hundley  Building,  on  the 
east  side  of  the  square,  correspond- 
ing to  the  second  story  of  the  build- 
ing where  John  M.  Cline's  Drug 
Store  now  is.  It  continued  to  hold 
its  meetings  there  until  1892,  when 
it  moved  into  a  lodge  room  of  its 
own,  built  and  furnished  from  its 
own  funds,  on  South  Market  street, 
on  the  Southwest  corner  of  the  block 
just  south  of  where  Westbrook's 
store  now  is.  Here  it  held  its  meet- 
ings and  rented  its  hall  to  the  Ma- 
sons. Knights  of  Pythias,  and  other 
benevolent  organizations,  until  Feb- 
ruary 1st,  1899,  when  the  hall  and 
most  of  the  furnishings  and  para- 
phernalia were  destroyed  by  fire, 
but  the  loss  was  nearly  covered  by 
insurance. 

The  Lodge  then  obtained  a  lease 
upon  the  second  story  of  what  was 
then  called  the  Goodall  and  Camp- 
bell building  on  the  north  side  of 
the  square,  the  building  now,  and 
at  the  time,  being  owned  by  Charles 
H.  Denison,  and  being  upon  the  same 
spot  of  ground  where  Richard  Tre- 
vor's store  now  it.  As  the  room  was 
in  a  very  bad  state  of  repair,  the 
Lodge  was  compelled  to,  and  did,  ex- 
pend considerable  money  in  repair- 
ing it  and  arranging  the  many  re- 
quisites for  good  lodge  work.  Some- 
thing over  seven  hundred  dollars 
was  expended  in  repairs  and  refitting 
the  hall.  Sub-leases  were  entered 
into  with  the  Encampment,  Re- 
bekahs.       Masons,         Eastern       Star, 


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Knights  of  Pythias  and  Knights  and 
Ladies  of  Honor.  All  arrangements 
were  highly  satisfactory  with  land- 
lord and  tenants,  when  the  follow- 
ing September  26th,  1S99,  the  lodge 
room,  building  and  all  the  furnish- 
ings and  regalia  of  all  the  Orders, 
including  the  Odd  Fellows,  were  de- 
stroyed by  fire,  nothing  saved,  and 
not  more  than  half  enough  insurance 
to  cover  the  loss.  In  190  0  the  Ma- 
sons, Odd  Fellows  and  Knights  of 
Pythias,  procured  a  ten-year  lease 
from  Mr.  C.  H.  Denison  for  a  hall 
in  the  Xew  Denison  Building  on  the 
north  side  of  the  square.  There 
is  also  a  banquet  hall  attached,  and 
the  room  is  styled  "Fraternity  Hall." 
It  was  furnished  and  fitted  up  by  all 
three  of  the  Orders  jointly,  each 
bearing  one-third  of  the  expense. 
The  Hall  is  used  by  the  Chapter  and 
Blue  Lodge  Masons,  by  the  Encamp- 
ment and  Subordinate  Lodge  of 
Odd  Fellows,  by  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  and  by  the  Eastern  Star  and 
Rebekahs. 

Williamson  Lodge,  Xo.  3  9  2,  is 
styled  and  regarded  as  the  parent 
lodge  in  the  County.  Since  the  insti- 
tution of  the  Lodge  in  Marion,  ten 
other  Lodges  have  been  instituted  in 
the  County,  and  the  charter  mem- 
bers have  drawn  heavily  upon  the 
Marion  Lodge.  Over  three  hundred 
names  have  been  enrolled  on  the 
records  of  Williamson  Lodge,  No. 
3  92,  and  there  have  been  withdraw- 
als for  nearly  every  lodge  instituted. 
It  bought  forty  lots  in  the  Marion 
City  Cemetery,  and  its  net  worth  is 
about   $4000.00. 

The  following  lodges  hare  been 
instituted  in  the  County,  and  all  are 
in   a   prosperous  condition: 

Williamson   Lodge.   Xo.    392,   insti- 


MARIOX   CIDER    MILL. 


luted  May  27,  1SC9  by  S.  A.  Flag- 
ler:   number  of   members.    S.5. 

Crab  Orchard  Lodge,  Xo.  4  75,  in- 
stituted February  IC,  IS 72,  by  Geo. 
W.  Young;   number  of  members,   53. 

Corinth  Lodge,  Xo.  502,  instituted 
.January  7,  1.S73.  by  J.  F.  Winn: 
number  of   members,    4S. 

Creal  Springs  Lodge.  Xo.  5ti4.  in- 
stituted February  10,  1S73,  by  R.  B. 
Williams;   number  of  members,   54. 

Carterville  Lodge.  Xo.  703,  insti- 
tuted February  17.  1SS2,  by  Geo.  W. 
Young;    number  of  members.   175. 

Stonefort  Lodge,  Xo.  7  31,  insti- 
tuted May  11,  1S8  3,  by  Geo.  W. 
Young;    number   of   members,    65. 


COAL  BELT  LIXE    ELECTRIC  CAR. 
The  Big  Muddy  Mine  in  the  Distance. 


Vietch  Lodge,  Xo.  136,  instituted 
August  2  7.  1.S.S4,  by  Geo.  W.  Young; 
number    of    members,    GS. 

Fountain  Lodge,  Xo.  396,  insti- 
tuted February  25.  1892,  by  Geo.  W. 
Young;    number  of  members,   25. 

Herrin  Lodge,  Xo.  430,  instituted 
June  11,  1900,  by  Geo.  W.  Walker; 
number    of    members,    95. 

J.  R.  Miller  Lodge,  Xo.  515,  insti- 
tuted December  17,  1904,  by  J.  W. 
Wheatley;   number  of  members,  35. 

Blairsville  Lodge,  Xo.  525,  insti- 
tuted December  31,  1904,  by  J.  W. 
Wheatley;  number  of  members,  40. 
Total  membership  at  present,  S50. 
Benevolent  Encampment,  No.  171, 
was  institutel  .January  5,  1876,  with 
\V.  H.  Eubanks.  Geo.  W.  Young, 
Daniel  A.  Davis,  James  V.  Grider, 
Patrick  H.  Lang,  John  R.  Little  and 
Jacob  Stein,  as  Charter  members. 
James  B.  Richart.  of  Carbondale,  was 
the  instituting  officer,  assisted  by 
members  from  Carbondale  Encamp- 
ment. This  Encampment  was  one  of 
the  best  furnished  Encampments  in 
Southern  Illinois,  and  sustained  it- 
self with  the  Order  in  an  acceptable 
manner  until  the  burn-out  Septem- 
lier  26,  1899,  when  it  lost  all  of  its 
paraphernalia  and  working  appar- 
atus, and  not  having  any  insurance, 
it  has  not  done  any  work  since,  but 
a  few  of  the  members  pay  the  per 
capita  tax  to  the  Grand  Encampment 
and  retain  the  charter,  cherishing 
the  hope  that  before  long,  some  of 
the  young  and  enthusiastic  Odd  Fel- 
lows will  desire  to  take  the  Sublime 
Degrees  and  again  start  the  Encamp- 
ment on  the  hi.ghway  of  Patriarchal 
Odd  Fellowship,  and  infuse  new  life 
into  the  work,  and  make  it  what  it 
was  intended  to  be.  and  is — the 
crowning  beauty  and  sublimity  of 
Odd   Fellowship. 


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SOI'VEXIR  ()I-    W  l[.LIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


OPERA  HOUSE  AT  ELECTRIC  PARK. 


Che  Rcbehah  Degree. 

The  Rebekah  Degree  is  no  longer 
a  side  degree,  or  an  honorar.v  ae- 
gree,  but  is  one  of  the  degrees  of  the 
Order,  separate  and  independent  in 
its  worlv,  receiving  its  Charter  from 
the  State  Grand  Lodge.  It  is  con- 
sidered an  auxiliary  to  the  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows.  It  is  under  the  juris- 
diction of  the  State  Grand  Lodge,  and 
its  Constitution  and  By-Laws  are 
approved  by  the  Grand  Lodge.  The 
Rebekah  Degree  is  very  popular,  not 
only  in  this  State,  but  throughout 
the  entire  domain  of  Odd  Fellow- 
ship. 

There  are  seven  thriving  and  pros- 
perous Rebekah  Lodges  in  the 
County,  viz:  Marion,  Creal  Springs, 
Carterville,  Crab  Orchard,  Herrin, 
Stonefort  and  Johnston  City,  with  a 
membership   of  over   400. 

Taking  for  its  compass  the  motto 
of  the  Order,  Friendship,  Love  and 
Truth,  the  Indepen  'ent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  has  carried  joy  and 
gladness  to  many  a  family  in  this 
County,  besides  it  has  distributed 
thousands  of  dollars  to  its  benefici- 
aries in  the  way  of  sick  and  funeral 
benefits  and  charitable  donations. 
It  occupies  a  place  in  the  front  rank 
of  the  Great  Republic  of  Fraternal 
and  Benevolent  Societies. 


Improved  Order  of  Redtnen. 

WIGWAM    OF 

MODOC     TRIBE,       NO.      173,       IMP. 

O.  R.  M. 

PAUL  .1.  SMITH,  Chief  of  Records. 

Council     Fire      Lighted     Thursday's 

Sleep.      Visitors   Welcome. 
Hunting  Grounds  of  Marion,  111." 

The     above       letterhead      of       this 
Council     of     Redmen,     composed     of 


men  of  all  colors — and  not  a  few 
women — is  a  better  comment  on  the 
Order  itself  than  we  could   write: 

It  claims  to  be  the  oldest  purely 
American  Secret  Society  in  existence, 
and  to  have  been  founded  before  the 
Revolutionary  War..  Its  motto  Is 
"Freedom,  Friendship,  Charity," 
and  it  claims  to  aid  the  afflicted, 
counsel  the  distressed;  succor  the 
feeble;  watch  the  sick  and  bury  the 
dead. 

"Redmen  administer  no  oath  bind- 
ing you  to  any  political  or  religious 
creel.  They  bind  neither  your  hands 
nor  your  feet;  as  you  enter  their 
wigwam,  so  you  depart,  a  free  man." 

It  now  numbers  in  the  United 
States    37.5,000    members,    including 


the  woman's  de.;ree  of  Pocahontas 
of  00,000.  The  average  membership 
for  each  tribe  is  said  to  be  ninety, 
with  an   invested  fund  of  $1,200. 

Total  receipts  for  the  past  year  for 
the  whole  Order,  $2,302,002,32; 
paid  for  relief  of  members,  $G11,- 
003.75;  widows  and  orphans,  $9,- 
329.15;  burial  of  the  dead,  $171,- 
017.55. 

The  Local  Tiibe  at  .Marion. 

Modoc,  No.  173,  was  organized  in 
1901,  with  29  charter  members,  and 
has  a  present  membership  of  SI.  Its 
Officers  are;  B.  F.  Jeter,  Sachem; 
Joseph  Dixon,  Senior  Sagamore;  J. 
H.  Younkins,  Junior  Sagamore;  Wil- 
liam Schroeder,  Prophet;  Paul  C. 
Smith,  Chief  of  Records;  John  B. 
Fry,  Keeper  of  Wampum. 

The  degree  of  Pocahontas  was  in- 
stituted September  24,  1904,  with 
39  charter  members  and  a  present 
membership  of  58.  It  bears  the 
euphoneous  name  of  Miona  Council, 
No.  58,  and  its  Officers  are  Mrs. 
Sarah  Eveland,  Pocahontas;  Eva  H. 
Holman,  Winona;  Geo.  W.  Brown, 
Powhattan;  Mrs.  Emma  Brown, 
Prophetess;  Miss  Polly  Johnson, 
Chief  of  Records;  Miss  Myrtle 
Brown,  Keeper  of  Wampum. 


Ben  Rur. 

This  is  a  late  comer  into  the  In- 
surance field,  but  a  very  vigorous 
and  vociferous  youngster,  neverthe- 
less. It  was  founded  March  1,  1894. 
with  its  headquarters  at  Crawfords- 
ville.  Indiana.  The  year  ot  its  or- 
ganization gave  it  759  members  and 
a  surplus  of  $2,653.  November, 
1,  1904 — ten  years  later — it  reported 
73,320  members,  total  assets,  $601,- 
356.79,  and  to  have  paid  to  deceased 


STOCK    B.\K.\    UK    i\lK.    JU.-XH    GOUDALL. 

One  span  of  his  large  prize   mules   in   the  foreground;    16   hands   high,   6 

years    old;     weighs    2600    pounds.    Mr.   Goodall   stands   by   the   door. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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OFFICERS  AXD  Mp:.MBERS    OF    THE    BROTHERHOOD    OF    ELKS,   MARION.   ILLINOIS. 
From   left   to   right.      Top   row — Charles  W.   Hay.  R.   H.  Cunningham,   Geo.    C.    Campbell.    John   Schneider, 
Jean  Burkhart.      Second  row — Cline  V.  Cunningham.  \Vm.   H.  Warder.  R.    Trevor,    Karl    Wolf.       Third    row — 
John  W.   Spiller,  O.  J.   Page,  W.   H.    Bundy,    Hogan    Willeford,   T.    S.    Morrison. 


members  $2,970,523.  The  local 
branch  was  organized  about  f.ve 
years  ago,  and  now  has  a  member- 
ship of  between  75  and  100.  J.  L. 
Johnson  is  the  local  deputy,  engaged 
in  securing  new  members. 

At  the  last  election  the  following 
Officers  were  chosen:  Chief,  0.  G. 
Wilson;  Teacher,  Mrs.  Fred  Hauer; 
Judge.  E.  F.  Vancil:  Guide,  Robert 
Sparks;  Captain,  James  Smith; 
Mother  Hur,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Vancil;  Tir- 
zah,  Katie  Edwards;  Scribe,  Charles 
L.  Campbell:  Ben  Hur,  C.  M.  Rice: 
Keeper  of  Tribute,  Frank  Howe;  In- 
door Keeper,  Frank  Wyatt;  Outdoor 
Keeper,  Prank  Ward:  Master  of 
Ceremonies,    Chas.    Campbell,    Sr. 


Cbc    Benevolent  and  protective 
Oder  of  eihe,  Marion  Lodge 

No.  8oo. 

This  most  numerous,  popular  and 
useful  of  the  Fraternal  Orders  of 
the  County,  was  organized  August  1, 
1902,  with  31  charter  members.  As 
the  rules  of  the  Order  require  a 
population  in  the  city  of  5,000,  b^ 
fore  a  charter  can  be  issued,  Marion 
Lodge  stands  alone  in  the  lower  por- 
tion of  Southern  Illinois,  with  the 
exception  of  Murphysboro,  DuQuoin, 
Mt.  Vernon,  Centralia  and  Cairo. 


It  has  fitted  up  the  oil  Dunaway 
Opera  House  in  a  substantial  and  at- 
tractive manner,  with  electric  lights 
and  fans,  chairs,  carpets  and  an  ele- 
gant piano  with  the  famous  Angelus 
automatic  attachment.  It  has  also 
a  good  billiard  room  and  table,  and 
a  large  and  well-appointed  dining 
room  for  festive  occasions.  The 
hall  has  a  seating  capacity  of  from 
three  to  five  hundred,  with  a  broad 
central  stairway  of  only  one  flight, 
opening  directly  on  the  street  on  the 
west  side  of  the  square.  Con- 
venience, safety  and  elegance  mark 
all  the  conditions  and  arrangements, 
and  it  is  not  surprising  that  it  is 
rapidly  increasing  in  members,  ap- 
plications being  received  at  every 
meeting. 

Beginning  with  31  members  two 
years  ago,  it  now  numbers  117.  Its 
first  officers  and  the  present  incum- 
bents are  as  follows: 

Charter   Officials — 

Ex-Ruler — Wm.    H.    Bundy. 
E.   L.   Kt. — W.   H.  Warden. 
E.   Loy  Kt. — J.   M.   Young. 
E.   Lee.   Kt. — O.   H.   Burnett. 
Sec. — Geo.   C.   Campbell. 
Treas. — H.    Spieldock. 
Esquire — T.    L.    Dowell. 
Tiler — Sandy    Miller. 
Chaplain — O.    J.    Page. 
I.  G. — O.  S.  Schnider. 


Trustees — Karl    Wolf.     M.    Cantor, 
C.  W.  Schwerdt. 
Present   Officers — 

Ex-Ruler — Wm.    H.    Warden. 

E.   L.   Kt. — J.   M.   Young. 

B.    Loy.   Kt. — Jean   Burkhart. 

E.   Lee.   Kt. — Chas.   W.   Hay. 

Sec. — Geo.   C.   Campbell. 

Treas. — H.   Spieldock.' 

Esquire — C.    V.    Cunningham. 

Tiler — John    W.    Spiller. 

Chaplain — R.    H.    Cunningham. 

I.   G. — Sandy  Miller. 

Trustees — Karl   Wolf.    Hogan   Wil- 
liford,   R.   Trevor. 


Order  of  eastern  Star. 

This  flourishing,  aristocratic  ad- 
dendum to  the  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  in  Ma- 
rion at  its  last  election  of  officers 
counted  in.  without  an  accusation 
of  ballot-box  stuffing,  generally 
chargable  to  political  performances 
in  that  line,  the  following  list  of 
misses  and  matrons  to  look  after 
the  business  and  edibles  for  the  en- 
suing year: 

Worthy  Matron — Mrs.  A.  Holland. 

Worthy    Patron — Joe   Fozzard. 

Associate    Matron — Mrs.    M.    Kern. 

Secretary — Miss    Alice    C.    Stotlar. 

Treasurer — Mrs.    Parle    Aikman. 

Conductress — Mrs.    P.    A.   Canfleld. 

Asst.    Con. — Nettie   Spieldock. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


THE  NKW  GOODALL    BLOCK. 


The   Five   Points   of   the   Star: 
Ada — Miss  Kate   Burkhart. 
Ruth — Mrs.    Geo.    C.    Heyde. 
Esther — Mrs.    Alice    Davis. 
Martha — Mrs.    Mollie    Holland. 
Electa — Miss   Ada    Edwards. 
Farder — Mrs.    Aggie    Abne.v. 
Sentinel — C.    T.    Holland. 
Marshall — M'-s.  Samantha   Smith. 
Chaplain — Mrs.   Emma   Fozard. 
It    was   organized    in 
and   numbers 


Modern  doodmcn  of  Hmerica. 

Marion  Camp.  No.  5  3  37,  at  its 
last  election  of  Officers,  selected  the 
following  list  to  bear  its  honors  the 
ensuing  year:  Consul,  M.  N.  Sewan; 
Worthy  Advisor.  Milton  Norman;  Ex- 
cellent Banker,  Fred  Kaeser:  Clerk, 
J.  M.  Dodd;  Escort,  Ed  Knight; 
Watchman,  Joe  Barham;  Sentry,  D. 
N.  Moore;  Managers,  Jesse  Holland. 
V.  A.  Scurlock.  F.  A.  Nance;  Camp 
Physician,  Dr.  A.  M.  Edwards. 

This  Camp  was  organized  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1898,  and  now  numbers  near- 
ly 100  members. 


Marion  Camp  of  Royal  )Vcighbors 

The  latest  roll  of  officers  of  this 
useful  "Annex"  to  the  Modern 
Woodmen   is  as  follows: 

Oracle — Mrs.   F.   A.   Nance. 

Vice  Oracle — May  Worley. 

Past   Oracle — Cora   Blankenship. 

Marshall — Kate  Barham. 

Chancellor — Mrs.    Will    Shroeder. 

Recorder — Effle  Norman. 

Receiver — Dora    Holland. 

Tnner  Sentinel — Martha  Lane. 

Outer  Sentinel — Laura  Robinson. 

The  camp  was  organized, 
and    numbers 


Paul  3.  Smith. 

Paul  J.  Smith,  Marion,  111.,  was 
liorn  August  20th,  IS  82,  in  West 
Vienna,  Johnson  County,  Illinois.  He 
comes  from  one  of  the  most  respect- 
able families  of  that  County.  His 
father,  M.  S.  Smith,  was  a  native 
of  Illinois,  and  was  born  iii  Novem- 
ber, 1S27.  His  ancestors  were  of 
English  and  Welsh  descent.  By  oc- 
cupation he  was  a  tanner.  Becom- 
ing tired  of  this,  he  began  farming, 
which  he  continued  until  his  death, 
Jan.  17,  IS 85.  He  was  first  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Mary  Davis,  to  which 
union  were  born  five  children,  of 
which  three  are  living.  They  were 
separated  by  the  death  of  the  wife. 
In  1874  he  was  married  to  Miss  Re- 
becca Ring,  a  native  of  Tennessee, 
who    was   born    October    2  3rd,    1845. 


To    this    union    were    born    five    chil- 
dren,  of   which   four  are   still   living. 

Paul,  the  youngest  of  the  family, 
spent  his  childhood  as  most  chil- 
dren, playing,  not  realizing  they 
were  the  happiest  days  of  his  life. 
His  youth  was  spent  in  going  to 
school  as  much  as  circumstances 
would  permit.  He  was  soon  made 
to  know  the  responsibility  that  rest- 
ed upon  him,  as  he  was  forced  to 
forsake  many  pleasures  and  to  lose 
time  from  school  in  order  to  assist 
in   supporting  the  family. 

As  his  father  died  when  Paul  was 
a  mere  child,  he  never  knew  the  in- 
fluence of  a  father,  and  was  com- 
pelled to  profit  by  his  own  experi- 
ence, and  soon  learned  that  the 
trials  in  this  life  had  to  be  met  with 
much  sacrifice  and  great  patietice. 
He  would  attend  the  common  rural 
schools  in  winter  months  and  farm 
in  the  suiumer,  together  with  coal 
mining.  In  this  way  he  acquired 
a  common  school  education  such  as 
at  that  time  was  afforded-  by  the 
rural  schools.  After  this  Mr.  Smith 
gained  a  practical  knowledge  of  coal 
mining  in  the  New  Burnside  coal 
mines.  Soon  after  he  was  16  years 
of  age  he  concluded  to  finish  his 
education,  and  was  admitted  by  ex- 
amination to  the  Vienna  High 
School,  where  he  attended  two  terms 
but  was  compelled  to  return  to  the 
mines  on  account  of  his  financial 
condition.  His  friends  offered  to 
place  him  in  school  where  he  could 
obtain  an  education  in  law.  but  he 
refused,  saying  if  he  ever  had  any- 
thing he  wanted  to  earn  it  himself. 
He  left  the  Vienna  High  School  with 
the  honors  of  a  Junior. 

In  19  01  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Florence  Reeves,  a  native  of  Illi- 
nois, born  February  15,  18  82,  and 
to  this  union  has  been  born  one 
child,  Melvin.  who  is  two  years  old. 

Having  a  desire  to  acquire  a  prac- 


RESIDENCE  wF  IIUX.  O.  11.    lU  UXC  I  r.    State    Senator. 


SOl'NENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


COMMERCIAL    HOTEL,  .MARION,   ILL 
Mrs.  A.  C.   Reynolds.  Proprietor. 


tical  mechanical  knowledge,  he  pro- 
cured a  position  as  locomotive  fire- 
man with  the  Illinois  Central  rail- 
road company,  and  later  with  the 
Frisco  Company.  In  1902  he  re- 
turned to  the  mines  and  was  em- 
ployed by  the  Carterville  District 
Coal  Company  of  Marion.  Here  he 
began  to  manifest  an  interest  in  or- 
ganized labor,  realizing  that  the 
working  masses  were  compelled  to 
unite  in  order  to  compete  with  com- 
bined capital.  Being  one  of  the 
horny-handed  sons  of  toil,  he  de- 
cided that  his  efforts  should,  and  of 
right  ought  to  be  dedicated  to  or- 
ganized labor.  In  a  short  time  after 
he  began  work  at  this  mine  he  was 
elected  vice  president  of  Local  Union 
No.  2216  U.  M.  W.  of  A.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1903,  he  was  elected  president 
of  this  local  union  by  acclamation. 
His  first  administration  of  this  of- 
fice was  so  successful  that  in  .Tune, 
1904,  he  was  re-elected  president 
without  opposition.  In  .4ugust,  190  4, 
he  was  chosen  delegate  to  Marion 
Trades  Council,  and  in  October  of  the 
same  year,  was  elected  vice  president 
of  that  body,  which  otfice  he  con- 
ducted  in  a  successful  manner.  In 
December,  1904,  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  Trades  Council  without  op- 
position. In  .January,  1905.  Mr. 
Smith  resigned  his  office  to  accept  an 
office  as  Business  Agent  with  that 
body,  and  in  connection  with  this 
office  he  was  commissioned  by 
Samuel  Gompers,  President  of  the 
American  Federation  of  Labor  as 
District  Organizer  of  Labor  Uniona 
for  Marion  and  vicinity.  He  resides 
in  the  northwest  part  of  this  city, 
better  known  as  German  Town. 


Slilltamson  County  Hgrtcultural 
Society. 

This  Society  was  incorporated  in 
1856,  with  the  following  gentlemen 
as  its  first  officers:  Willis  Allen, 
President:  .John  H.  White,  secretary: 
James  D.  Pulley,  treasurer.  Its  Di- 
rectors were:  John  Goodall,  J.  H. 
Swindell,  O.  H.  Pulley,  R.  M.  Hund- 
ley and   George   Willard. 

Prominent  among  the  members  of 
the  Association  were:  M.  C.  Camp- 
bell. George  W.  Binkley  and  J.  M. 
Cunningham,  who  all  united  in  the 
purchase  of  ten  acres  of  land  from  T. 
A.  Aikman,  to  be  used  as  a  fair 
ground.  It  lay  on  the  west  side,  just 
outside  of  the  then  corporate  limits 
of  the  town,  and  cost  $5  per  acre. 
The  gentlemen  whose  names  are 
given  above  fitted  it  up  at  their  own 
expense,  besides  buying  the  land,  ani 
then  made  a  present  of  it  to  the  So- 
ciety. Annual  fairs  were  held  on  this 
place  until  after  the  beginning  of  the 
Civil  War,  when  it  was  sold  to  R.  M. 
Hundley.  The  Souvenir  ha.s  in  its 
possession  a  piece  of  common  card 
board  on  which  is  written  with  ink 
"Admit  N.  West  and  family."  signed 
J.  H.  White  and  numbered  71.  It  is 
stamped  with  the  official  seal  of  the 
Williamson  County  Court,  and  must 
have  been  issued  as  early  as  1S56. 
when    its   first   officers   were   elected. 

Another  ticket  of  admission  is 
also  a  membership  ticket,  and  is 
dated  1871.  The  Society  was  then 
called  the  "Williamson  County  Agri- 
cultural and  Mechanical  Fair."  It 
"admits  the  bearer  and  family,"  and 
is   signed   "A.   N.   Lodge,   Secretary." 


It  is  also  countersigned  by  N.  West 
on  the  back.  A  third  ticket  is  head- 
ed "Williamson  Annual  E.xhibition, 
September  30th  and  October  1st,  2nd 
and  3d,  1879."  It  admits  F.  S.  West 
&  Co.,  is  "not  transferable,"  and  is 
signed  by  L.  A.  Goddard,  Secretary. 
A  fourth  ticket  is  dated  September 
28,  29,  30  and  October  1,  1880.  It 
is  headed  "Membership  Ticket  Wil- 
liamson County  Agricultural  Board, 
Twenty-fourth  Annual  Fair."  It  is 
issued  to  W.  H.  West  and  family,  and 
is  signed  also  by  L.  A.  Goddard,  Sec. 
A  fifth  and  the  last  is  a  "Compli- 
mentary Pass,"  issued  to  Rev.  J.  F. 
Wilcox  and  Lady,  to  the  Williamson- 
County  Fair,  Marion,  111..  ?eptember 
13,  14,  15  and  16,  1904,"  and  is 
signed  by  W.  J.  Aikman,  Pres.,  and 
W.  H.  Bundy,  Sec.  It  is  needless  to 
remark  that  the  Souvenir  Book  man 
used  and  enjoyed  it  to  the  utmost 
every  day  till  the  close,  and  took  pic- 
tures innumerable  of  the  very  fine 
stock,  crowds,  the  bands,  the  speak- 
ers: but  Mrs.  Wilcox  was  in  Effing- 
ham, so  the  "Lady"  could  not  par- 
ticipate.    This  sub  rosa. 

But  this  new  site  for  the  Pair  was 
purchased  of  George  C.  Campbell 
about  1866.  It  comprised  at  that 
time  2S  acres  at  the  Eastern  limits 
of  the  city,  one  mile  from  the  public 
sf|uare.  in  a  beautiful  natural  grove 
of  oak.  It  has  been  greatly  im- 
proved and  enlarged  till  it  now  con- 
tains 52  acres  in  one  body,  ample 
buildings  erected  and  a  fine  race 
track  graded,  which  is  said  to  be  the 
best  in  Southern  Illinois.  The 
amphitheatre  will  seat  1000  persons. 
The  whole  is  enclosed  in  a  high  and 
tight  board  fence. 


loa 


SOUVENIR   OF   WILLIAiMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


MARION   BASKET   BALL. 
From   left    to   right.      Top   row — Dessie    Mitchell,    Margery    Lee,    Bernese  Baker,   Edna   Welton,   Floss   Lee. 
Second   row — Celia   Askew.    Lou    Davi.s,   .Jestina   Townsend.      Third    row — Lora   Roach.   Lydia   Sanders. 


At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Fair 
the  membership  fee  was  placed  at 
$1.00  and  remained  at  that  figure 
In  the  year  1S86,  for  which  we  have 
reliable  report,  the  attendance  after 
the  first  day  was  from  .5,000  to 
8,000.  The  receipts  were  $3,100  and 
the  expenses  including  premiums, 
$2,000.  The  surplus  was  used  to 
cancel  an  old  debt  against  the  So- 
ciety, leaving  at  that  time  less  than 
$100  to  be  paid.  The  officers  that 
year  were  C.  H.  Dennison.  President; 
Wm.  F.  Westbrook,  vice  president; 
W.  H.  Eubanks,  secretary;  C.  M. 
Kern,  treasurer,  and  the  directors 
were  O.  S.  Tippy,  Shanno  Holland, 
John  H.  Sander,  Thomas,  N.  Cripps 
and   Dr.   Theo.    Huison. 

As  shown  by  the  reports  which  fol- 
low, the  progress  of  the  Society  has 
been  rapid  and  steady  making  the 
present  the  most  successful  year  of 
its  history.  Its  present  Secretary, 
Hon.  \V.  H.  Bundy,  was  first  elected 
to  that  office  in  1888,  having  pre- 
viously served  as  Director.  And 
with  the  exception  of  the  year  1899, 
when  Geo.  H.  Goodall  consented  to 
take  it.  Mr.  Bundy  has  served  con- 
ti"uously  until  the  present  time. 


According  to  the  Secretary's  offi- 
cial report  for  19  03.  the  Financial 
Statement  for  that  year  is  as  fol- 
lows: 

FINAXCIAL  EXHIBIT  FOR  1903. 

Amount  in  Treasurv  last  report $l,:i8S  55 

Gate  and  entrance  fee.'i  for  1903 3,89.3  15 

Booth  rents  and  permits 849  55 

State  appropriation 200  00 

Other  sources  .'5150 

$6,382  75 

Premiumspaid  ?2.ni  25 

Real  estate  buildings  and  imps 1,312  83 

Current  expenses fi85  40 

Amount  in  Tieasury   224.^22 

$6,:W2  75 

FINANCIAL  EXHIBIT  FOR  1904. 
Amount  in  Treasury  at  last  report ..  .$2,243  22 

Gate  and  cncrance  tees  for  19B4 3,592:15 

Booth  rents  and  permits  951  31 

Other  sources 448  ON 

$7,234  96 

Premiumspaid $2,205  87 

Real  estate  bldgs.  and  Imps l,i:!9  53 

Current  expenses 802  09 

Remaining  in  Treasury 3,087  45 

$7,234  9(1 

Present  cash  yalue  of  real   estate  and 

imps 52.)  ono  Oil 

The  following  is  a  list  of  its  officers 
for  the  years   1903-.j: 

W.  J.  Aikman.  president;  Dr. 
Theodore  Hudson,  vice  president; 
Charles   M.    Kern,    treasurer;    W.    H. 


Bundy,  secretary;  directors,  O.  S. 
Tippy,  H.  N.  Boles,  James  A.  Good- 
all,   John   W.   Gray,    Harrison   White. 

Elected   for   1905: 

Joab  Goodall,  president;  Shannon 
Holland,  vice  president;  Geo.  H. 
Goodall.  treasurer;  Geo.  C.  Camp- 
bell, secretary;  directors,  Mann  Bul- 
liner,  Carterville;  Chas.  A.  Gent, 
Marion;  Jas.  Gent,  Marion;  William 
Dunston,  Marion;  Willis  Harris, 
Creal  Springs. 


Marion  pressed  Brick  Company. 

This  excellent  and  very  promising 
enterprise  was  first  set  upon  its  feet 
in  May,  1903.  It  was  organized  by 
Chas.  A.  Gent,  J.  C.  Mitchell  and  S. 
R.  Fuller,  commissioners,  with  $25,- 
000  capital  stock.  The  original 
stockholders  were,  besides  the  above 
named  gentlemen,  Adele  Holland,  W. 
H.  Warder,  E.  N.  Rice,  L.  C.  Camp- 
bell, A.  L.  Cline.  John  H.  Duncan 
and  M.  L.  Baker.  Its  present  officers 
are  A.  L.  Cline,  president;  J.  C.  Mit- 
chell, vice  president;  L.  C.  Campbell, 
secretary  and  treasurer;  J.  R.  Lam- 
port, superintendent  of  works.     The 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON'   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


101 


VIEW   IX  FAIR   GROUND,   FAIR    SEPT.    13-17,    1904. 
County  Race  Track  in  the  Distance. 


plant  consists  of  40  acres  of  the  very 
best  of  brick  clay  land,  lying  level  at 
the  northwest  crossing  of  the  Coal 
Belt  and  the  Illinois  Central  rail- 
roads, and  has  a  switch  track  to  both. 
They  run  four  down  draft  kilns, 
having  a  capacity  of  75,000  bricks 
each.  They  use  the  Quincy  Im- 
proved Clay  Gatherer,  which  gath- 
ers enough  clay  at  one  time  for  300 
bricks:  and  the  Boyd  Four-Mould 
Pressed  Brick  Machine,  having  a 
capacity  of  20,000  bricks  each  day  of 
ten  hours.  They  began  construction 
work  in  June.  1903,  and  were  press- 
ing brick  in  the  following  September. 
They  give  employment  on  an  aver- 
age of  to  20  men  daily.  Their  out- 
put is  largely  disposed  of  at  home, 
but  they  find  a  market  for  their 
surplus  in  the  near-by  towns  of  Car- 
terville,  Herrin,  Johnson  City  and 
the  outlying  towns  along  the  rail- 
roads. 


IMaHon   prcascd    Brtck    CCorks, 
6rtggs  Brothers,  proprktore. 

This  extensive  plant,  owned  and 
run  for  six  years  by  Benj.  B.  Griggs, 
changed  hands  July  1st,  1904,  the 
brothers  buying  out  the  father's  in- 
terest. It  is  located  on  East  College 
St.,  near  the  Fair  Grounds,  and  is 
the  most  extensive  plant  in  the 
county.  They  have  an  inexhaustible 
bed  of  fine  clay  and  a  capacity  of 
20,000  bricks  a  day.  They  have  an 
invested  capital  of  about  $10,000, 
and  in  the  busy  season  employ  on  an 
average    20    men    and    three    teams. 


They  have  two  kilns  with  a  capacity 
of  200,000  brick  each,  seven  drying 
sheds,  holding  200.000  and  run  a 
CO-horse  power  engine.  They  manu- 
facture the  red  pressed  brick,  for 
which  they  use  the  Freese  machine, 
and  also  make  cement  and  sand 
blocks  and  mouldings  for  facings 
and  trimmings,  for  which  they  use 
the    Horton-repress    machine. 

Their  output  is  mostly  disposed  of 
at  and  near  home,  although  they 
ship  to  Herrin,  Carterville,  Gore- 
ville,  Creal  Springs,  Johnson  City, 
West  Frankfort.  Benton  and  DeSoto 
They  are  now  filling  an  order  for 
300.000  bricks  for  Herrin.  They 
have  made  and  sold  more  than 
2,000,000  brick  the  year  past,  and 
the  output  and  demand  is  on  the  in- 
crease. 


Marion  Steam  Marble   Cflorks 
Incorporated. 

This  promiueut  industry  was  in- 
augurated in  September,  1903,  sev- 
eral minor  establishments  being  ab- 
sorbed and  a  corporation  formed 
with  $10,000  capital.  They  began 
work  in  1904  and  already  have  un- 
der contract  and  in  preparation 
about  $5,000  worth  of  work  to  be 
delivered  this  spring.  They  em- 
ploy  about   five  hands  steadily. 

The  well-known  Attorney  and 
Master  in  Chancery,  W.  O.  Potter,  by 
a  late  purchase  of  the  stock  held  by 
Chas.  A.  Gent,  became  sole  owner 
and  manager  of  the  plant,  and  with 
his   usual   business   energy   and   skill 


will  make  it  in  a  very  short  time  a 
very    flourishing    industry. 

The  location  is  near  the  crossing  of 
the  Illinois  Central  and  C.  &  E.  I. 
railroads,  with  shipping  facilities  at 
both.  Their  principal  building  is  of 
wood.  75x40  feet,  which  contains  the 
oflices.  the  cutting  and  polishing 
room,  and  a  full  equipment  of  ma- 
chinery and  tools,  consisting  of  en- 
gine and  boilers,  air  compressor,  air 
pump  and  a  complete  outfit  of  pneu- 
matic tools. 

Another  building.  25x40.  is  de- 
voted to  storage  and  the  cutting  and 
dressing  of  lime-stone  bases,  which 
are  obtained  from  the  Romona 
Oolitic  Stone  Company  of  Indianapo- 
lis. Indiana.  They  execute  all  kinds 
of  granite  and  marble  work  and  keep 
six  salesmen  employed. 


electric  Light  and  power   Co. 

A.  E.  Harper,  of  Chicago.  Presi- 
dent: H.  C.  Shaw.  Marion.  Manager; 
W.  E.  Fish,  Marion,  Supt.  of  Con- 
struction and  of  Mechanical  and 
Electrical   Department. 

This  enterprising  company  is 
iust  now  installing  an  entirely  new 
plant  at  Marion,  which  will  have 
sufficient  power  to  supply  all  de- 
mands. As  soon  as  the  new  build- 
ing is  completed,  the  old  machinery 
will  be  moved  into  the  ell-part  and 
used  as  necessity  may  require. 

The  new  plant  consists  of  one  150- 
horse  power  Hamilton-Corless  en- 
gine, capable  of  furnishing  110  kilo- 
wats     alternating    current    equal     to 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


Flash-light  of  thf  aiuilein'e  loom  of  the  OlJei'a  Housf  at  Maiiou.  Illinois. .  on  I  he  evening  ot  Fiulay. 
November  25,  1904,  on  the  occasion  of  the  delivery  by  Dr.  John  W.  Cook,  President  of  the  State  Normal 
School  at  DeKalb,  111.,  of  his  lecture  on  "The  New  Profession,"  before  the  Thirteenth  Annual  Union  Teach- 
ers Meeting  of  teachers  from  the  counties   of  Pope,   Saline.  Johnson  and  Williamson    counties,    Illinois. 


OfHcers — Prof.  J.  W.  Turner,  of 
Marion:  Secretary,  Carrie  Reeves, 
New  Burnside;  Executive  Commit- 
tee— M.  Lillian  Baker,  County  Supt. 
Pope  Co.;  Lewis  E.  York,  County 
Supt.  Saline  Co.;  W.  M.  Grissom, 
County  Supt.  Johnson  Co.;  R.  O. 
Clarida,  County  Supt.  Williamson 
Co. 

The  following  list  comprised  but  a 
portion  of  the  teachers  present; 

Finis  A.  Wilson,  Eldorado;  Martha 
C.  Kocher,  Marion;  W.  W.  Adams, 
Marion;  M.  C.  Cowan,  Carterville; 
John  R.  Pulley,  Marion:  Alice  Flem- 
ing, Herrin;  Grace  GodJard,  Ma- 
rion; Thomas  Thornton,  Goreville; 
Blanch  Parks.  Goreville:  Prof.  W.  L. 
Ozment,  Carterville;  Lizzie  Casper, 
Buncombe:  Ethel  Scaggs,  Marion; 
Alice  Scaggs,  Marion:  P.  H.  Scaggs, 
Marion;  Emma  Brunty,  Eldorado: 
Lyman  E.  Davis,  Crab  Orchard;  Em- 
ma Eyman,  Benton;  Charles  Sher- 
ertz,  Marion;  W.  C.  Peterson,  Manti, 
Utah;  John  M.  Grimes,  Marion: 
Lena  Whitacre,  Carterville:  Wesley 
Edmondson.  New  Burnside;  A.  M. 
Clement,  Bryan,  Idaho:  Edith  Chan- 
nup,  Marion;  Anna  G.  Edmondson, 
New  Burnside;  Frank  L.  Veach, 
Goreville:    Robert     Simpson,     Ozark: 


Ora  Scaggs,  Marion;  Lucile  Scaggs, 
Marion;  Lulu  Whitacre,  Carterville; 
Carrie  Gallemore,  Wolf  Creek;  Car- 
rie Hailey,  Ozark;  Prof.  J.  W.  Mc- 
Kinney,  Johnson  City;  Charles  Pet- 
erson, Buncombe:  Bettie  Channup, 
Carterville:  Paul  Phelps,  Cypress: 
T.  R.  Kelley,  Marion:  H.  T.  McKin- 
ney,  Herrin:  Myrtle  Rikard,  Marion: 
Roy  L.  Black,  Carterville;  E.  W.  Ed- 
mondson, New  Burnside:  C.  L.  Cole- 
man, Oakville;  Mrs.  P.  J.  Smith, 
Marion:  C.  A.  Sanders,  Zeigler;  J. 
L.  D.  Hartwell,  Marion:  J.  E.  Chism, 
Goreville;  Thomas  Burns,  Goreville; 
Oscar  W.  Whitacre,  Carbondale; 
Maud  E.  Roberts,  Marion:  O.  D.  Ed- 
wards, Harrisburg;  J.  V.  Fowler, 
Marion;  W.  C.  Fly,  Carbondale: 
Lizzie  Lasley,  Rago;  Maud  Gatlin, 
Vienna;  Brantley  Kirley,  Simpson; 
J.  T.  Coleman,  Carterville,  Route 
No.  2;  A.  W.  Kelley,  Canaville;  Ada 
Alwood,  Creal  Springs;  Mina  Hutch- 
inson, Creal  Springs;  Ira  Cox,  Gore- 
ville; A.  G.  Veach,  Goreville:  J.  S. 
Arnold,  Crab  Orchard:  Alonzo 
Thurston,  Marion:  C.  A.  Pulley,  Ma- 
rion: Carl  Matthews,  Crab  Orchard: 
W.  R.  Matthews,  Crab  Orchard;  W. 
Rolla  Cremeons,  Herrin;  John  Gillis- 
pie,    Creal    Springs;    N.     L.     Atwood, 


Creal  Springs;  Ella  D.  Fouch,  Crain- 
ville;  Prof.  E.  G.  Lentz,  Creal 
Springs;  Otto  Treece,  Goreville; 
Sylvia  Henson,  Johnson  City;  Dilas 
Kerley,  Flat  woods;  Prof.  C.  C.  Den- 
ney,  Marion;  E.  J.  Singleton,  Blalrs- 
ville;  Vinnie  Shackelford,  Canaville; 
Daisy  Murrie,  Vienna:  Cynthia 
Tramel,  Marion;  J.  W.  Womack, 
Stonefort;  Mr.  Leonard  Marberry, 
Reevesville;  Mary  M.  Mitchell,  Har- 
risburg, Bettie  B.  Gaskins,  Harris- 
burg; Prof.  G.  D.  Ferrill,  Herrin; 
Alpha  Cox,  Marion;  Charles  Comer, 
Creal  Springs  Route  No.  2;  Ike  Gif- 
ford,  Creal  Springs;  Ada  McCall, 
Vienna;  Esther  Burnett,  Crab  Or- 
chard; Ed  M.  Heaton,  Carterville; 
Elmer  Finley.  Carbondale;  A.  Gas- 
saway,  Herrin:  Maggie  Mills,  Bloom- 
field;  Ella  Reid,  Marion;  Nellie 
Reid,  Marion:  Gussie  Morray, 
Bloomfield;  Prof.  J.  W.  Asbury,  Ma- 
rion: Prof.  W.  A.  Cook,  Marion:  A. 
L.  Whittenburg,  Johnson  City;  Har- 
ry Taylor,  Harrisburg;  J.  C.  Ren- 
belt,  Vienna:  May  Hawkins,  Golcon- 
da;  Clarence  Bonnell,  Harrisburg; 
Mattie  Stocks,  Herrin:  Ethel  Hal- 
leck.  Harrisburg.  Etta  Jayner,  Har- 
risburg; Lulu  Whittenburg.  Johnson' 
Citv:   D.   L.   Martin,   Johnson  City. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


103 


SOME  COrXTY   OFKICKKS  AND  THEIR  FRIENDS  AT  ilARIOX,    ILLIXUUS. 
Top   row— H    V    Shackelford,   Mr.   Hilbreth.   W.   A.   Jacobs,   W.   F.   Tidwell,   Cass  Pully.      Second  row— .1. 
M.   Dodd.  A.  G.   Davis.  Lednard  A.   Gulp,  F.  L.  Shrave,  C.  L.  Miller,  Chas.    R.   Otey.      Last  row— Dr.  J.  F.  Tid- 
well. R.  O.  Clarida,  L.  B.   Pulley,  H.    S.    Harris.    Rufus   Xeeley,   Thos.    Davis. 


2000  16-candle  power  lamps.  The 
old  engine  is  of  100-horse  power, 
ideal  high  speed,  of  7  5  K.  W.  power, 
•equal  to  1500,  16-candle  power 
lamps.  They  are  using  three  boilers 
now  and  are  adding  two  more  to  the 
new  plant.  They  have  between  fif- 
teen and  twenty  miles  of  wire  strung 
and  are  using  50  arc  lamps  of  1200- 
candle  power  each  for  street  light- 
ing, and  2  500  incandescent  lamps. 
The  actual  power  required  to  fur- 
nish light  for  the  city  is  at  present 
12  0   K.   W. 


Hlclborn  Store  Co.,  of  New  Dcnt- 

9on,  IlHnots. 

This  enterprising  and  successful 
company  was  organized  in  1900,  with 
the  following  partners:  W.  R.,  E.  L. 
and  C.  W;  Welborn,  brothers.  They 
handle  a  general  stock  of  merchan- 
dise, which  is  always  well  assorted, 
ample  for  the  trade  and  up-to-date 
In  style  and  quality.  It  controls  a 
capital  of  $20,000,  and  has  a  branch 
at  Attila,  in  the  eastern  part  of  the 
County. 


Coal  Belt  Bottling  Company, 
Incorporated. 

Morrison  t  Willeford.  Props. 

This  fine  factory  was  erected  by 
Xall  and  Williams,  Carpenters,  Con- 
tractors and  Builders,  and  the  com- 
pany was  incorporated  in  1901, 
It  is  of  brick  with  dressed  stone 
trimmings,  one  story,  35x79,  with  a 
Kl-foot  drive-way  on  one  side  and 
2  4-foot  on  the  other.  It  was  fin- 
ishel  .lune  1st,  and  cost  $3,50i>. 

Stotlar,  Rcrrin  Lumber  Company 

Incorporated. 

This  company  has  a  very  large 
and  flourishing  establishment  at 
Herrin  for  its  main  business,  with 
important  branches  at  Marion,  John- 
son City  and  DeSoto.  It  is  successor 
to  the  W.  N.  Stotlar  Lumber  Co.,  the 
Paul  Herrin  Lumber  Co.  and  the 
Johnson  City  Lumber  Co..  and  was 
incorporated  May  1,  1901,  with  $2n.- 
0  00  cash  capital.  It  handles  every- 
thing used  in  building  a  frame  house 
from  turret  to  foundation.  Its  lum- 
ber is    principally  Yellow   Pine     and 


Cypress.  It  does  an  immense  volume 
of  business  under  the  active  manage- 
ment of  its  officers  and  branch  man- 
agers. In  1901  they  sent  to  their 
main  house  at  Herrin  at  one  ship- 
ment no  less  than  21  cars  of  lumber, 
followed  the  day  after  by  two  more 
belated  ones,  giving  them  the  nice 
little  job  of  unloading  23  cars  from 
the  track  at  one  time.  This  is  the 
largest  single  shipment  of  lumber 
ever  made  into  the  County. 

Of  course,  this  rate  is  not  kept  up, 
but  the  tremendous  development  of 
the  mining  industry  throughout  the 
district  has  given  all  branches  of  bus- 
iness a  rapid  and  permanent  growth, 
and  structures  of  all  kinds  are 
springing  up  everywhere.  New 
towns  are  being  started  and  the  old 
ones  improved  as  by  the  hand  of  the 
magician,  and  the  building  trades 
are  flourishing.  This  has  given  all 
dealers  in  material  a  tremendous 
rush  of  business  which  bids  fair  to 
continue  for  many  years,  or  until 
new  mines  cease  to  be  opened. 

The  coal  in  the  district  is  not  only 
the  best  in  the  United  States,  but  is 
in  such  vast  quantity  as  to  be  prac- 
tically inexhaustible. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


MAP  SHOWING  LINE  OF  COAL  BELT  RAILWAY  COMPANY:      ACTUAL  AND  PROPOSED. 


The  present  officers  of  the  corpora- 
tion are  W.  N.  Stotlar,  president; 
Thomas  Stotlar,  vice  president:  E. 
M.  Stotlar,  secretary:  Harry  Stotlar, 
treasurer.  The  directors  are  Fred 
Stotlar.  Paul  Herrin  and  C.  C. 
Stotlar. 

The  branch  managers  are  Fred 
Stotlar,  Herrin:  E.  M.  Stotlar,  Ma- 
rion: C.  C.  Stotlar,  Johnson  City: 
Henry  Stotlar,  DeSoto.  They  give 
constant  employment  to  an  average 
of  10  men  besides  the  active  force  of 
the  officers  and  yard  masters  in  the 
four  branches. 


Che  transfer  Business. 

The  transfer  business  of  Marion 
consists  mainly  in  the  loading  and 
unloading  of  cars  from  the  two  rail- 
roads entering  the  city  of  the  various 
commodities  handled  here,  such  as 
store  goods  of  all  sorts,  marble, 
brick,  stone,  lime,  sand  and  lumber. 
Coal  is  loaded  for  shipment  at  the 
mines  and  for  local  use  is  largely 
brought  in  by  farmers  from  near-by 
coal  banks.  There  are  no  long  hauls 
to  furnish  steady  employment  to 
teams,  as  the  various  roads  reach  all 
parts  of  the  county,  and  only  short 
hauls  and  town  and  city  transfer 
business  can  be  obtained.  The  city 
furnishes  some  work  in  grading  its 
streets  and  graveling  them  with 
broken  stone. 

The  four  wholesale  houses  here 
run  their  own  teams,  as  do  also  the 


three    lumber    dealers,    and    the    two 
Houring  mills. 

So,  in  addition  to  several  drays 
and  a  swarm  of  delivery  wagons,  the 
ti-ansfer  business  is  in  the  hands  of 
three  firms:  Lane  &  Brother,  T.  C. 
Whittock  and  W.  H.  Travelstead. 
Statistics  of  their  work  cannot  be  ob- 
tained, but  all  keep  busy. 


employed    they    keep    from    eight 
ten  men. 


B.  e.  Lane  and  Brother, 
Cransfcr  and  feed  Co. 

This  prosperous  business  started  in 
a  small  way  in  August,  1902.  The 
proprietors  had  but  one  horse  and  an 
old  farm  wagon,  and  very  little 
money,  but  they  had  lots  of  energy 
and  ambition,  and  a  determination 
to  succeed.  Besides,  they  had  good 
sense  and  good  morals.  There  was 
no  one  at  Marion  who  made  the  tran.s- 
fer  of  goods  and  merchandise  a  busi- 
ness, so  the  opening  was  a  fine  one 
and  they  saw  their  chance  and  were 
quick  to  seize  it.  Besides  the  trans- 
fer of  goods  to  and  from  the  railroad 
depot,  they  do  a  general  teaming 
business,  handling  large  quantities 
of  all  sorts  of  building  material,  such 
as  brick,  lime  and  sand,  lumber  and 
stone.  They  also  keep  a  full  supply 
of  hay  and  feed,  both  for  their  own 
teams  and  for  sale. 

They  now  own  and  run  four  good 
teams  and  wagons,  and  have  built  a 
large  barn  and  stables  for  their 
teams  and  supplies,  capable  of  sta- 
bling  twenty    horses.         When    fully 


Bcnry    edward    Lane    and 
jfobn  j('  Lane, 


IJrotlicrs  and  Proprietors  of  Transfer 
and  Peed   Company. 

These  gentlemen  have  always  been 
partners  in  everything  they  did  since 
they  were  old  enough  to  work. 
Their  father,  Andrew  Jackson  Lane, 
died  in  1S99  and  left  the  wife  a 
widow  with  two  boys,  Henry  23,  and 
John  21,  who  together  went  into 
coal  mining  as  soon  as  they  reached 
manhood.  They  were  poor  and  had 
only  the  benefits  of  a  common  school 
e  Uication,  although  Henry  had  a 
short  term  at  Crab  Orchard 
Academy,  and  digging  coal  seemed 
the  best  prospect  for  a  living  they 
knew  of.  Henry  married  April  5, 
1900,  Miss  Elnora  Henson.  They 
had  one  child  which  died  in  infancy, 
and  November  6,  1902,  the  wife 
sickened  and  died  also.  The  death 
of  their  father  and  Henry's  wife  and 
child  all  within  three  years  kept  the 
family  poorer  still,  and  was  a  great 
setback  in  the  way  of  business.  But 
they  had  started  the  teaming  busi- 
ness the  August  preceding  the  death 
of  Mrs.  Lane  in  November,  and  their 
misfortune  only  spurred  them  to 
greater  effort. 

Henry     was     born     at     Bainbridge 


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April  4,  1S76.  and  John.  Febniaiy 
19,  1879.  They  both  belong  to  the 
Woodmen  and  Henry  is  a  member  of 
the  M.  E.  church.  In  politics  both 
are  republicans.  Henry  at  one  time 
spent  five  years  in  handling  musical 
instruments  and  books.  That  was 
before  the  death  of  the  elder  Lane, 
anl  before  his  marriage. 


Cbc    6oddard    6roccr    Co.,   St. 

Louts,  Mo.,  Marion  Branch. 

Established  September  11,  19ii3, 
J.  A.  Burkett,  Manager.  This  new 
departure  is  doing  a  thriving  busi- 
ness, not  only  catering  to  the  needs 
of  Marion  grocers,  but  shipping  on 
all  the  railway  lines  passing  through 
Marion.  They  keep  two  men  em- 
ployed in  the  house  and  two  on  the 
road. 


dilHamson  County  Contractors 
.Association. 

This  association  of  contractors  and 
builders  was  incorporated  in  1903. 
Its   charter   members   are: 

J.  W.  Chapman,  general  con- 
tractor, president;  George  Fuller, 
brick  contractor,  secretary:  Robert 
Sparks,  treasurer:  R.  C.  Noll,  of  Noll 
&  Williams,  General  Contractors, 
Frank  Bock,  painter,  Albert  Sumner, 
plasterer:  Burt  Bobbit,  Oscar  M.  Wil- 
liams, of  Noll  &  Williams,  Otis  Wil- 
liams and  A.   L.   Pulley,   directors. 

Their  office  is  in  the  old  Hyde 
Building,  on  North  Market  St. 


Marion   fruit    and  produce 
Business. 

The  Fruit  and  Produce  business  of 
Marion  supports  two  flourishing 
wholesale  houses,  both  of  recent 
establishment.  The  Marion  Fruit 
and  Produce  Company  opened  busi- 
ness in  the  spring  of  1904,  with 
Brice  Holland  as  head  of  the  house 
and  his  two  sons,  W.  P.  Holland  and 
T.  A.  Holland,  junior  partners.  Their 
first  year's  business  reached  a  total 
of  $30,000.  They  deal  in  all  kinds 
of  foreign  and  domestic  fruits  and 
produce,  shipping  a  car  load  of 
bananas  about  every  ten  days.  When 
we  remember  that  a  car  load  contains 
about  400  bunches  of  fruit  and 
weighs  20,000  pounds,  we  get  a  good 
idea  of  the  amount  of  this  excellent 
fruit  consumed  in  the  area  supplied 
from  this  point.  They  handle  only 
the  finest  of  this  fruit  and  ship  ex- 
clusively from  Port  Le  Mon,  Central 
America,   via   New   Orleans. 

The  Southern  Illinois  Fruit  Co., 
located  also  at  Marion,  is  another 
wholesale  fruit  and  produce  com- 
pany,   and    also    opened    up    in    their 


line  last  year.  The  volume  of  their 
business  is  not  inferior  to  that  of 
their  competitors. 

Since  writing  the  above  these  com- 
panies have  consolidated  and  incor- 
porated under  the  last  title. 


eggs  and  poultry  in  Marion. 

This  branch  of  industry  is  owned 
and  controlled  by  Armour  &  Co.,  the 
great  Chicago  packers.  Mr.  E.  E. 
Kimmel,  the  manager,  has  been  con- 
nected with  it  for  the  past  six  years. 
The  poultry  house  was  originally  a 
tobacco  barn,  built  by  Goodall  & 
Campbell,  but  upon  the  decline  of 
that  industry  was  sold  to  Jean  & 
Son,  the  original  promoters  of  the 
poultry  business  in  this  market. 
Later  the  firm  changed  to  Jean  & 
Re 'f earn,  then  to  McArthur  &  Son, 
and  then  a  company  was  formed  to 
facilitate  the  rapid  growth  of  the 
business,  under  the  title  of  the  Jean, 
Hurst.  Redfearn  Produce  Co.  This 
was  absorbed  by  W.  B.  Hurst  &  Co., 
and  then  the  last  transfer,  that  to 
the  present  management,  took  place. 

The  business  has  always  been  verv 
profitable,  and  at  present  represents 
an  outlay  of  about  $75,000  annually. 
They  ship  mostly  to  the  markets  of 
the  East,  sending  to  Chicago  only  foi 
cold   storage. 


Insurance. 

The  business  of  fire  insurance  in 
Marion  is  mostly  done  by  the  oldest 
insurance  man  in  this  part  of  Illi- 
nois, T.  J.  Binkley,  who  has  been 
writing  insurance  for  24  years.  He 
is  devoted  exclusively  to  that  line  of 
business,  is  expert,  well  known  and 
highly  esteemed.  He  has  been  a 
long  time  in  the  field,  represents 
only  the  very  best  companies,  and  in 
consequence,  gets  the  bulk  of  the 
business.  He,  now  for  some  years,  is 
not  compelled  to  do  any  soliciting, 
but  when  Williamson  County  wants 
any  insurance,  they  know  whe'-o  to 
get  the  best,  and  generally  go  to 
"Jeff   Binkley." 

The  following  gentlemen  comprise 
the  Marion  Board  of  Underwriters, 
and  are  all  well-known  and  solid 
business  men: 

T.  J.  Binkley,  representing  the  Na- 
tional of  Hartford,  Conn.,  the  Com- 
mercial Union  of  London,  Eng., 
American  Central  of  St.  Louis,  New 
York  Underwriters  and  the  Phoenix 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  J.:  L.  C.  Campbell, 
representing  the  Glens  Falls,  Spring- 
field Fire  and  Marine,  West- 
chester, N.  J.:  Ed.  M.  Spiller,  repre- 
senting the  Germania:  R.  P.  Fowler, 
the  Connecticut,  Hartford  and 
Northern:  Dennison  &  Son,  the  Phil- 
adelphia     Underwriters,      Liverpool, 


London  and  Globe:  Traders  Insurance 
Co.  of  Chicago:  J.  P.  Lewis,  the 
Queen:  Abney  &  Bentley,  the  Cale- 
donian: T.  J.  Youngblood,  Michigan 
Fire  and  Marine:  Rice  and  Throg- 
morton.  North  British  and  Mercan- 
tile: Fireman's  Fund:  Home,  of  New 
Jersey;  Etna:  Citizens,  of  Missouri; 
Fire  Association;  Insurance  Co.  of 
North  America:  Norwich  Union; 
Providence,  of  Washington:  German 
American. 

The  Life  Insurance  in  this  section 
is  principally  in  the  hands  of  the  va- 
rious Orders  and  benefit  associations, 
the  Old  Line  Stock  Companies  having 
very  little  to  do  with  it.  The  Pru- 
dential, howveer,  and  the  Bankers' 
Association  of  Des  Moines,  la.,  and 
the  Metropolitan  are  all  doing  a  sat- 
isfactory business.  The  local  officers 
of  the  Prudential  are:  W.  H.  Hen- 
drick,  Ass't.  Supt.:  Isaac  N.  Cox  and 
A.  Z.  Elam,  agents,  Marion:  F.  W. 
Burdick,  Herrin;  J.  W.  Woodburn, 
Carterville:  Edward  L.  Bayless, 
Johnson  City:  S.  C.  McClintoc,  West 
Frankfort.  The  Metropolitan  is  re- 
presented by  Mr.  A.  L.  Chury,  who 
seems  to  be  very  active  and  success- 
ful in  his  canvass. 


Some  postoffice  Bistory. 

This  office  is  now  rated  3rd  Class, 
but  its  annual  income  having  reached 
$S,000,  it  will  next  July  be  ad- 
vanced to  2nd  Class.  Besides  the 
six  daily  trips  over  the  rural  routes, 
the  office  receives  and  discharges  ten 
daily  mails.  The  following  table 
gives  the  hours  received,  the  direc- 
tion and  the  railroad  over  which 
sent,  of  each  mail: 

5:30  a.  m.,  north  over  111.  Cen. 
6:50  a.  m.,  north  over  C.  &  E.  I. 
10:28  a.  m.,  south  over  111.  Cen. 
12:40  a.  m.,  south  over  111.  Cen. 
3:40  p.  m..  north  over  111.  Cen. 
7:50  p.  m.,  north  over  111.  Cen. 
10:25  p.  m.,  south  over  111.  Cen. 
8:00  a.  ra.,  south  over  111.  Cen. 
3:00  a.  m.,  west  over  Coal  Belt. 
5:00  a.  m..  west  over  Coal  Belt. 

The  total  amount  of  daily  mail  is 
about  100  pounds,  requiring  the  la- 
bor of  three  clerks  besides  Mr.  Jones, 
the  postmaster,  to  handle  it.  Mr.  S. 
S.  Miller  is  assistant  postmaster,  hav- 
ing charge  of  all  money  order  busi- 
ness. E.  T.  Howell  and  T.  F.  Jones, 
son  of  the  postmaster,  are  the  gen- 
eral  delivery   clerks. 

The  Postoffice  Department  allows 
but  $580  towards  the  expense  of  run- 
ning the  office,  besides  $60.00  for 
lights  and  fuel,  and  $25  a  month  for 
rent.  The  salary  of  Mr.  Jones  la 
$1900.  He  had  to  fit  up  the  office 
himself  at  an  expense  of  about  $600. 
He  pays  $12.50  additional  every 
month  for  rent  and  the  salaries  of 
his  office  force.     The  office  has   49 S 


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SOUX'ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLLNOIS. 


boxes,  rented  at  from  20  to  40  cents 
per  quarter  each.  There  are  six  ru- 
ral routes  out  of  Marion,  each  carrier 
getting  a  salary  of  $G0  a  month  and 
providing  his  own  teams  and  wagon. 
Adding  together  all  the  items  of  ex- 
pense, we  find  that  account  with  the 
government  for  this  office  stands  as 
follows: 

Present  receipts  of  office   .  .  .  .$S,300 

Salary  of  Postmaster 1,900 

Assistants    58^ 

Lights  and   Fuel G<' 

Office  rent 300 

Total $7,160 

Balance  for  Government.  ...  $1,140 
From  which  it  appears  that  the  post 
office  at  Marion  is  now  self-sustaining 
and  gives  the  Department  a  surplus 
of   $1,140. 

Rural   Houtes. 

The   six  routes  are   as   follows: 
No.  Direction  Carrier. 

1.  Northeast  of  Marion     A.  D.  Davis 

2.  East  and  North       Frank  Peebles 

3.  Southeast  C.  C.  Davis 

4.  South  William  Erwin 

5.  Southwest  William  Collins 

6.  Northwest  J.  M.  Peterson 


n.  C.  lonca,  postmaster. 

Born  November  3,  1853.  near  Creal 
Springs.  Williamson  County,  Illinois. 
He  secured  such  education  as  farmer 
boys  generally  get  in  the  district 
school,  and  followed  the  plow  until 
2  5  years  old.  His  father,  John  S. 
Jones,  is  now  living  with  his  chil- 
dren, at  the  age  of  7G.  His  mother, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Sarah  F. 
Jones,  died  in  1891,  aged  60. 

In  18S2  he  moved  into  Creal 
Springs  and  in  18SS  was  elected  to 
the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
serving  one  term.  In  1892  he  came 
to  Marion  and  was  elected  Circuit 
Clerk  and  re-elected  in  1900,  serving 
two   full   terms  of   eight  years. 

On  the  10th  of  December,  1900,  he 
received  his  first  appointment  as 
postmaster,  and  after  one  term  of 
four  years  received  a  second  appoint- 
ment, without  opposition,  on  the 
13th  of  last  December. 

His  marriage  took  place  while  he 
was  living  on  the  farm.  February  13, 
1871.  His  wife  was  Miss  Mary  J. 
Bower,  daughter  of  Wm.  J.  Bower,  a 
farmer  near  Crab  Orchard.  To  this 
union  four  children  have  been  born: 
Sarah,  wife  of  N  W  Martin.  Marion: 
Amanda,  wife  of  H.  W.  Lane.  Marion; 
Madeline,  living  with  her  parents, 
and  Thomas  F.  Jones,  employed  in 
the  postoffice.  The  family  are  mem- 
bers of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  and 
he  belongs  to  Williamson  Lodge,  No. 
392.  T.  O.  O.  F. 


Financial    Interests 


Marion  is  well  equipped  with 
banks  and  bankers.  She  has  three 
of  the  best  banks  in  Southern  Illi- 
nois. The  officers  of  these  banking 
institutions  are  among  the  most  con- 
servative business  men  of  the  com- 
munity, and  their  standing  in  the 
community  is  an  adde  1  strength  to 
the  integrity  of  their  respective  cen- 
ters  of   finance. 

first  National  Banh. 

The  First  National  Bank  of  Ma- 
rion was  organized  in  January,  1891, 
with  a  capital  of  $50,000,  in  succes- 
sion to  the  Exchange  Bank,  which 
for  a  number  of  years  prior  thereto 
had  been  conducted  under  practically 
the  same  management  as  the  present 
institution.  It  is  one  of  the  strong- 
est financial  institutions  in  this  end 
of  the  state,  and  under  conservative, 
yet  liberal  management,  extends 
every  permissible  accommodation  to 
customers.  Its  officers  and  directors 
are  among  the  most  substantial  of 
our  business  men  and  citizens,  and  in 
their  personalities  alone  afford  every 
guarantee  to  depositors,  known  to 
banking. 

We  append  the  last  report  of  the 
condition  of  the  Bank,  taken  May 
29.    1905: 

RESOURCKS. 

nemaJrrLoans :. i i ■.•.;■.■. :*'9M4i  ^7 

gXSsmes  Bonds/.:. :■...•• f^  500  00 

Due  from  the  U.  S.  Treasurer ba  00 

Stocks.  Bonds,   County   and   School 

Orders ^H-km 

Furniture  and  Fixtures 2.0'=  00 

Real  Estate ,■■;,■     v ,•,,  Ss  «s 

Cash  in  bank  and  Sight  Exchange...  mM»  »^ 

Total  $4r.y.l02  3:^ 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital  Stock *  5???  ?k 

Undivided  Profits w  -nn  nn 

rirrulaticn  12,o00  00 

Deposits •  3ib.fe3*  I: 

-Potal ..$469,102  33 

It  has  always  been  the  policy  of 
this  bank  to  aid  in  every  legitimate 
way  and  assist  in  the  development  of 
the  commercial  and  financial  inter- 
ests of  Marion  and  Williamson  coun- 
ty. To  that  end  we  ask  your  co-op- 
eration, and  trust  it  may  be  your 
pleasure  to  place  all  or  a  part  of 
vour  account  with  us. 


yet  conducted  in  his  name,  on  an 
extensive  scale,  in  the  Holland 
block  on  the  south  side  of  our  pub- 
lic square.  He  is  owner  of  this 
building,  erected  in  1894-5.  It  is 
50x75  feet  in  dimensions.  2  stories 
and  basement,  iron  front,  modernly 
built  and  one  of  the  finest  structures 
in  Marion.  The  upper  portion,  de- 
voted to  residence  purposes,  is  Mr. 
Holland's  handsomely  appointed 
home. 

Though  shunning  publicity,  Mr. 
Holland  has  been  city  treasurer, 
served  as  alderman  and  during  1891- 
2  as  Mayor,  in  each  of  which  posi- 
tions he  acquitted  himself  with  ad- 
vantage to  the  public.  He  married 
in  1872  Annie  Cox,  daughter  of 
George  Cox,  himself  a  Virginian. 
She  was  born  and  reared  in  William- 
son county.     They  have  no  children. 


SHANNON   HOLLAND. 


Mr.  Shannon  Holland,  president  of 
the  First  National  Bank  since  1894, 
was  born  near  Morgantown,  West 
Virginia,  February  2,  1864,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Marion  at 
the  age  of  15  years.  His  father  en- 
gaged in  brick  making  and  was  as- 
sisted by  the  son,  who  later  entered 
the  livery  and  stock  business  on  his 
own  account  and  was  successful. 
Still  later  he  established  the  dry 
goods    and     millinery     establishment 


J.   C.    MITCHELL. 


This  reference  would  be  inade- 
quate did  it  not  contain  some  men- 
tion of  Mr.  J.  C.  Mitchell,  since  1891 
the  capable  and  conscientious  cash- 
ier of  the  above  institution.  He  was 
born  in  Williamson  county  in  1852, 
attended  the  public  schools  and  at 
the  early  age  of  IG  years  engaged 
in  the  drug  business,  in  which  he 
continued  with  success  until  his 
election  as  county  clerk  in  1886.  He 
was  re-elected  in  1890,  serving  until 
189  4,  from  1891  occupying  the  dual 
position  of  county  clerk  and  cashier 
of  the  First  National  Bank.  When 
Mr.  Mitchell  assumed  the  duties  of 
his  office  as  county  clerk  Williamson 
county  had  an  indebtedness  of  $30,- 
000  and  county  orders  were  selling 
at  4  0  cents  on  the  dollar  of  their 
face  value.  When  he  left  that  office 
this  debt  had  been  cancelled  and 
county  warrants  were  selling  at  par, 
a  result  largely  due  to  the  efficiency 
and  financial  skill  displayed  by  him 
in  management  of  county  affairs. 
He  has  since  won  added  recognition 
in  financial  circles,  and  is  known 
throughout  the  state  as  a  factor  in 
the  development  of  Williamson 
county  interests.  He  married  in 
1872  Lily  White,  daughter  of  Col. 
John  White  and  sister  of  A.  F. 
White.  Her  life  was  spent  in  doing 
good.  She  died  in  1901.  leaving 
seven  children.  John.  Rose,  Verna. 
James,  Frank.  Dessie  and  Everett, 
who  give  promise  of  inheriting  her 
gentle  virtues,  with  their  father's 
sterling  traits  of  character. 


LLOYD  C.   CAMPBELL. 

Lloyd  C.  Campbell,  assistant  cash- 
ier of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Marion  is  the  son  of  J.  M.  Campbell, 
the  grocer,  and  Mollie  Campbell,  nee 
Fubanks.  The  father  dates  back  to 
the  old  Blue-Grass  state  from  which 
he  came  to  Marion  when  a  boy  and 
married   her   who     was     Mollie     Eu- 


SOUXENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS.  107 

FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK  OFFICIALS. 


ROLI.A   HOLLAND, 
Director. 


J.   C.   MITCHELL, 
Cashier. 


L.   C.   CAMPBELL. 

Assistant    Casliier. 


SHANNON    HOLLAND, 
President. 


^'  w*^ 


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A.   M.   TOWNSEND, 
Director. 


J.   B.  BAINBRIDGE, 
Vice  President. 


THOS.   STOTLAR, 
Director. 


JOAB    GOODALL 
Director. 


T.   J.   BINKLEY, 
Director. 


108 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


banks.  L.  C.  Campbell  Is  the  first 
child  of  three  in  the  order  of  their 
ages,  and  was  first  introduoed  to  the 
public  eye  (and  ear)  October  Iti, 
1S74,  in  Marion.  His  early  educa- 
tion and  training  were  the  best  pos- 
sible, being  such  as  Marion  affords 
to  all  of  its  school  boys.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  the  High  School  class  of 
'9  2  from  which  he  entered  the  gen- 
eral merchandise  store  of  Burkhart 
&  Binkley,  where  he  sold  goods  for 
two  months.  Ke  then  entered  the 
■  First  National  Bank  as  bookkeeper 
in  September,  1S92,  where  he  ac- 
quitted himself  so  well  that  after 
three  years  he  was  elected  assistant 
cashier,  which  position  he  still  holds. 
On  July  12th,  1S97.  he  took  a  "help- 
mate" in  the  pei'son  of  Miss  Xettie 
Hottse,  the  daughter  of  C.  H.  House, 
now  and  for  some  years  in  the  em- 
ploy  of    Burkhart    &    Binkley. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  an  active  worker 
in  the  Christian  field,  is  a  member 
of  the  M.  E.  church  and  Superin- 
tendent of  its  Sun-lay  Srho-'l.  He 
rightly  regards  the  leligion  of  Christ 
as  the  most  potent  influence  for 
good  in  the  world  and  sees  no  reason 
to  discard  or  even  neglect  the  best 
and  most  efficient  instrument  for  one 
of  less  power  for  usefulness.  Hav- 
ing a  good,  sharp  steel  sword,  he  has 
no  desire  to  exchange  it  for  a  wood- 
en one.  Hence,  his  labors  and  all 
Tiis  influence  in  all  reformative  work 
or  for  the  benefit  or  upbuilding  of 
his  fellowmen  are  pnd  RMist  be  dis- 
tinctively Christian,  and  that  simply 
because  he,  bein°;  a  Christian,  de- 
sires that  what  little  good  he  can  do 
in  the  world  shall  be  for  the  honor 
of  the  Christian  name  and  principles 
and  to  none  other  whatever.  Let 
others  use  a  wooden  sword  if  they 
have  none  better,  but  he  has  the 
"Sword  of  the  Spirit,  which  is  the 
word  of  God." 

Mr.  Campbell  is  republican  in  poli- 
tics, but  not  pn  active  politician. 

In  July,  1903.  he  was  elected  the 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Ma- 
rion Pressed  Brick  Company  and  as 
such  looks  aftei'  the  interests  of 
their  extensive  nlant  at  the  crossing 
of  the  Hlinoi"  Central  and  Coal  Belt 
Railways. 


ALBERT  M.  TOWXSEND. 


Albert  M.  Townsend  was  born 
August  26,  1851,  in  Carroll  county, 
Tennessee.  He  was  from  staunch 
ITnion  stock  who  dared  and  suffered 
much  at  the  hands  of  guerrillas, 
during  the  dark  days  of  the  war. 
His  mother  died  at  the  beginning  of 
the  war,  his  father  was  killed  by 
guerrillas  during  the  war,  one  broth- 
er was  cruelly  murdered  by  them 
when  he  crept  from  his  hiding  place 
in  the  brush  in  order  to  get  food 
to    sustain    life,     while     another,     a 


mere  boy,  was  hung  by  them,  but 
on  relenting  they  cut  him  down  be- 
fore life  was  extinct  and  thus  he  was 
spared.  He  died  April  1.5,  1903. 
By  these  untoward  events,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  left  an  or- 
phan at  the  age  of  ten  and  the  only 
one  left  on  the  farm  to  support  the 
family  of  smaller  children  and  look 
after  the  crops  and  their  few  beasts. 
Under  the  circumstances,  it  is  not  to 
be  wondered  at  that  his  schooling  in 
Tennessee  was  very  light.  However, 
after  he  came  to  Williamson  county, 
when  past  twenty-one  years  old,  he 
secured  three  terms  of  schooling  by 
working  out  nights  and  mornings 
and  by  the  day  in  summer,  in  order 
to  pay  his  board.  He  spent  four 
rears  in  Williamson  county,  and 
then  moved  to  Senatobia,  Miss., 
where  he  followed  the  trade  of  a 
carpenter  and  builder  until  1S92 
when  he  returned  with  his  wife  and 
children  to  Williamson  county. 
While  in  Mississippi,  he  married 
Miss  Virginia  Adman,  a  Tennessee 
lady,  by  whom  he  has  had  five  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  are  still  living. 
He  is  a  republican  in  nolitics.  and 
was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  on 
that  ticket  in  1SS6.  but  finding  it 
was  a  hindrance  to  his  business,  he 
resigned.  In  1S90  he  was  elected 
county  treasurer  pnd  in  1S92  moved 
to  Marion,  where  'le  has  since  resid- 
ed. In  1884  he  first  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Primitive  Baptist  church, 
where  his  membership  still  stands 
and  of  which  he  is  at  present  clerk. 
He  belongs  to  the  directorate  of  the 
First  National  Bank  and  is  a  mem- 
ber in  good  standing  of  the  Blue 
Lodge  of  the  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  In 
April  15,  1903,  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Thomas  A.  Cox  in  the  im- 
plement business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Cox  &  Townsend.  They 
handle  all  kinds  of  favm  implements 
wagons,  buggies,  etc. 


ROLLA   HOLLAND. 

Rolla  Holland,  farmer  and  stock- 
man, was  born  in  Monongahela  coun- 
ty. West  Virginia,  December  1.  1851. 
In  ISGl  he  came  to  Illinois  with  his 
parents  and  grew  up  on  a  farm. 
November  29.  1S7  9,  he  was  married 
to  Mary  Roberts  by  whom  he  has 
four  children. 

He  is  a  di'-pftor  of  the  Firsr  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Marion. 


THOMAS    J.    BINKLEY. 


Insurance     and    Director     of     Marion 
State  and   Savings  Bank. 


In  common  with  so  large  a  propor- 
tion of  the  leading  citizens  of  south- 
ern Illinois,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch   is  a   native  of  Tennessee,  but 


mostly  reared  and  educated  in  this 
county,  where  his  active  life  has 
been  spent.  He  was  born  January 
12,  ]S5(i,  in  Cheatham  county,  on 
the  Cumberland  mountains  about 
twenty  miles  from  Nashville.  His 
father,  A.  N.  Binkley,  was  one  of 
those  sinewy  sons  of  energy  out  of 
whose  sterling  qualities  of  head  and 
heart  has  come  a  very  large  share 
of  the  brawn  and  brain  of  this  coun- 
try. He  lived  and  toiled  and  died 
on  his  native  mountains  in  Tennes- 
see. Ke  was  born  in  1812  and  died 
in  1878.  His  only  brother  was 
George  Washington  Binkley,  who 
settled  at  a  very  early  day  four  miles 
north  of  Marion  when  the  country 
was  practically  a  wil  'erness  and  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  actors  in 
the  affairs  of  this  part  of  Illinois 
for  many  years.  He  served  in  the 
state  legislature  at  Springfield  and 
was  equally  successful  and  popular 
as  a  man,  in  politics,  or  in  business. 
His  wife  was  even  more  remarkable 
than  himself  and  reared  no  less  than 
twelve  adopted  children,  besides  two 
of  her  own.  Thomas  came  to  Ma- 
rion in  1867  and  settled  on  the  old 
Binkley  place.  When  about  four- 
teen years  old,  he  with  his  father 
and  family  listened  to  the  roar  of 
cannon  at  the  battle  of  Fort  Don- 
aHson  only  forty  miles  away.  His 
education  was  that  of  the  common 
school  sort  with  a  term  or  two  at 
the  academy  in  his  Tennessee  home 
before  moving  west.  For  thirteen 
years  he  followed  farming,  but  in 
18S2  went  into  the  insurance  busi- 
ness and  for  twenty  years  has  been 
the  leading  man  in  that  line  in 
Southern  Illinois.  Following  the 
usual  custom  at  first,  he  canvassed 
this  county  and  the  adjoining  terri- 
tory until  he  has  established  a  repu- 
tation that  brings  his  customers  to 
him  for  miles  around. 

In  1895  he  established  the  Ma- 
rion Steam  Laundry  at  a  cost  of 
$3,000.  which  he  later  sold.  He  has 
never  dabbled  in  politics  nor  run 
for  office,  except  for  city  council  in 
which  he  served  two  terms.  His 
only  interest  outside  of  his  insur- 
ance and  real  estate,  being  in  his 
bank,  the  First  National  Bank,  of 
which  he  has  been  a  director  for 
about  twelve  years,  being  re-elected 
annually,  and  the  Christian  church, 
of  which  he  has  been  a  member 
since  1S65.  He  was  married  Decem- 
ber 23,  1S68,  to  Miss  Cynthia  Parlee 
Goddard.  the  daughter  of  Wesley 
Goddard.  Nine  children  blessed  this 
union  of  which  five  are  living,  Ro- 
wena,  who  married  Eugene  Ewbank 
and  lives  in  Johnson  City:  George 
W.,  now  a  clerk  for  No,  3  mine:  Roy 
Goddard,  clerk  for  the  Egyptian 
Powder  Mills:  Rome,  a  conductor  on 
the  Electric  Coal  Belt  Line,  and  Net- 
tie, the  youngest  now  seventeen 
years  old,  living  at  home. 


SOUN'EXIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COL'NTY,  ILLINOIS  109 

WILLIAMSON  COUNTY  SAVINGS   BANK  OFFICIALS. 


GKO.  H.  GOODALL, 
Director. 


J.   M.   BURKHART, 

Vice    President. 


.1.  B.  UAi.\lU;lDGE, 
Director. 


JOAB  GOODALL, 
President. 


JAS.    W.    GEXT, 
Director. 


W.  S.  BURKHART. 
Cashier. 


.IAS.  L.  ADAMS 
Director. 


W.  H.  WARDER, 
Director. 


M.  CANTOR, 
Director. 


110 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


INTERNAL   VIEW   OF   THE    MARION  STATE  AND  SAVINGS  BANK. 

C.   H.   Dennison,   President,   at   the   left:    Earl   B.   .lackson.   cashier,  and   F. 

R.   Borton,   assistant   cashier,    at    the    window. 


IManon  State  and  Savings  Banh 

We  give  two  views  of  this  elegant 
bank  building  herein  showing  both 
its  external  and  internal  appearance. 
It  was  erected  in  19C.3  by  Gill  & 
Pride,  contractors  and  builders.  The 
second  story  is  occupied  as  the  City 
Hall  and  Council  Chamber  and  the 
justice  court  and  law  office  of  Juige 
R.  P.  Hill.  No.  1  Justice  Court  in 
the  rear  of  the  bank  is  occupied  by 
Ed  Durham  as  a  first  class  barber 
shop. 

The  inside  view  of  the  bank  shows 
the  now  venerable  president,  C.  H. 
Dennison;  the  cashier,  Earl  B.  Jack- 
son; and  F.  M.  Borton,  assistant 
cashier,  in  attendance.  It  was  taken 
by  Mr.  J.  W.  Wilder,  of  this  city  m 
January  1904. 

The  bank  furnishings  are  of  ma- 
hogany and  have  no  superior  in  ma- 
terial or  finish  in  Chicago.  St.  Louis, 
or  any  other  city  in  the  United 
States.  The  work  was  done  by 
Kloak  Brothers,  Cincinnati.  Ohio,  in 
July,   1903,  at  a  cost  of  $1,200. 

It  had  been  furnished  before  but 
the  burning  of  the  Benson  block 
next  to  it  in  February.  190  3.  de- 
stroyed the  interior  by  the  falling  of 
the  whole  adjacent  wall  by  which  a 
2-foot  brick  wall,  two  stories  in 
heighth  was  precipitated  into  the 
bank  through  its  glass  partition  on 
the  south  side,  crushing  the  whole 
internal  fixtures  into  kindling  woo'. 
This  was  followed  by  fire  and  that 
by  a  deluge  of  water  by  which  com- 
bination it  was  pretty  effectually 
wiped  out.  It  has  however.  Phoenix 
like,  risen  from  its  ashes  and  is 
more  beautiful  than  ever.  The  fol- 
lowing  is    the    latest    report    of    the 


condition  of  the  Marion  State  and 
Savings  Bank  before  the  commence- 
ment of  business  on  the  31st  day  of 
May,  1905: 

REbOUKCiiS. 

Loans,  and  Discounts $29:1,570  93 

Overdrafts 6.640  83 

Real  Estate  owned  by  the  Bank 323  55 

Furniture  and  Fi.xtures 3.307  00 

Due  from  Xational  Banks  79,487  09 

Due  froffi  State  Banks  and  Bankers.  39,027  17 

Checks  and  Other  Cash  Items 705  45 

Cash  on  hand— a.  Gold  Coin  2,375  00 

b.  Silver  Coin 697  25 

Gold  and  Silver  Treas'v  Cer- 
tificates. Xational  Bank  Cur- 
rency,    Legal     Tender     and 

Treas'y  Notes 15,725  00 

Fractional  Currency,  nickels,  cents.  51  75 

Total $442,51161 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital  Stock  paid  in $  GO.OOO  00 

Surplus  Fund .W,  1300  00 

Undivided  Profits,  less  expenses  a:  d 

taxes  paid 2.962  S5 

Time  deposits— savings 9.382  17 

—Certificates     207,420  55 

Demand  Deposits— Individual   107,60165 

Certificates  25,144  .39 

Total $442,511  61 


HON.   CHARLES  H.   DENNISON. 

Hon.  Charles  H.  Dennison,  Mayor 
of  Marion  and  President  of  the  Ma- 
rion State  and  Savings  Bank,  was 
born  in  Seneca  county.  New  York 
August  31st,  1S37,  the  third  of  sev- 
en children.  His  father.  Edward 
Dennison.  was  a  native  of  Vermont 
of  Irish  descent,  born  17S9  ant  died 
in  McHenry  county,  Illinois,  in  1872. 
His  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Evelina  Hitchcock,  was  of  English 
ancestors  and  born  in  Utica,  N.  Y.. 
in  l.SOS.  They  married  in  Utica  and 
moved  to  Huron  county.  Ohio,  in 
1841.  In  1849  they  came  to  Mc- 
Henry county,  Illinois.  She  died  at 
the  residence  of  her  son  in  Marion 
in  July,   1886. 


Our  subject  was  reared  on  a  farm 
and  educated  in  the  common  school 
of  McHenry  and  taught  school  two 
years  after  he  was  2il  in  the  Mc- 
Henry county  public  schools.  His 
marriage  took  place  in  1869.  when 
he  settled  on  a  farm  at  Bainbridge 
an  i  alternated  farming  and  dealing 
in  live  stock  with  school  teaching 
until  1873.  At  the  fall  election  of 
IN 72  he  was  elected  circuit  clerk  of 
Williamson  county  on  the  Democrat- 
ic ticket  with  the  late  Joseph  W. 
Hartwell  as  his  antaTonist.  His 
first  experience  in  politics  was  in 
1870  and  on  the  following  New 
Years  day  moved  his  family  to  Ma- 
rion, where  he  was  beaten  for  sher- 
iff by  Alonzo  Owen  with  40  votes. 
At  the  expiration  of  his  official  term 
as  circuit  clerk  he  entered  into  part- 
nership with  W.  H.  Bundy  in  the 
drug  business,  but  two  years  later 
sold  out  his  interest  to  W.  S.  Wash- 
burn and  confined  his  business  to 
handling  real  estate  and  live  stock. 
His  election  to  the  mayorality  did 
not  occur  until  the  spring  of  1903. 
He  went  into  banking  in  1890  with 
Mr.  Searing,  opening  a  private  bank 
under  the  firm  name  of  Searing  an1 
Dennison  with  $30,000  capital.  A 
little  later  Mr.  J.  H.  Burnett  came 
into  the  firm  and  afterwards  bought 
out  Jlr.  Searing's  interest.  In  July 
24.  1902.  the  present  Marion  State 
and  Savings  Bank  was  incorporated 
with  a  capital  of  $60,000  in  which 
Mr.  Dennison  is  the  largest  and  Mr. 
Burnett  the  second  largest  stock- 
holder. The  stock  is  now  held  at 
100  per  cent  premium  and  none  for 
sale.  It  pays  20  per  cent  annual 
dividends.  Mr.  Dennison  is  a  care- 
ful conservative  financier,  not  given 
to  wildcat  schemes  of  speculation 
and  has  been  very  fortunate  and 
successful  all  his  life.  Intimate 
friends  ascribe  his  gooi  fortune  to 
his  open  ear  to  the  advice  of  his  tal- 
ented better  half,  which  opinion  is. 
of  course,  strictly  orthodox,  and  in 
entire  accord  with  all  the  wise-acres 
from  Adam  down,  who  it  must  be 
admitted,  was  a  notable  exception 
and  was  ruined  by  trying  to  set  the 
proper  pace  in  the  race.  His  de- 
scendents  however,  have  refused  to 
take  warning  by  his  horrible  ex- 
ample and  have  foun^  their  happi- 
ness and  good  luck  in  doing  exactly 
the  thing  which  drove  him  from  hor- 
ticulture to  farming  and  stock  rais- 
ing among  the  thistles.  Probably 
their  success  in  doing  so  may  be  as- 
cribed to  the  homeopathic  principles 
of  "Similia.  similibus  curantor" 
which  liberally  translated  means 
"the  hair  of  the  same  doy  cures  the 
bite."  At  any  rate  he  did  the  wisest 
thing  his  ancestors  have  ever  done 
when  March  21,  1869,  he  took  him 
a  "rib."  The  maiden  name  of  the 
fortunate  lady  was  Mary  E.,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  S.  H.  and  Mary  A.  Bundy. 
nee  Smith.     She  was  born  in  DeKalb 


SOUV'ENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLVOIS. 


Ill 


county,  Tennessee,  in  184S.  and  has 
proven  herself  indeed  a  "help-meet" 
to  her  husband  until  the  present 
hour  and  are  able  to  reckon  their 
property  accumulations  at  over 
$200,01111.  They  own  four  fine  farms 
in  this  county  valued  at  $50,0u0, 
other  realty  of  equal  amount  includ- 
ing their  elegant  home  on  West 
Main  street:  the  splendid  store 
building  of  the  Allen  Phyfer  Chemi- 
cal building  of  St.  Louis;  the  largest 
drug  house  in  the  city;  the  fine  Den- 
nison  building  in  Marion;  $12,000 
stock  in  the  bank  of  which  he  is 
president  and  $5,000  stock  in  the 
Allen  Phyfer  Co.  Their  chil  Iran  in 
the  order  of  their  births  are  Leon  E. 
Dennison  in  the  Wholesale  Dry 
Goods  business  at  Cairo;  Edward 
Everett  Dennison,  attorney  at  law 
in  Marion;  Mrs.  Lora  B.,  the  wife  of 
Charles  E.  Lane,  vice  president  and 
general  manager  of  the  Allen  Phy- 
fer Chemical  Co.,  and  Samuel  B. 
Dennison.   farmer  at   Marion. 


EARL   B.   JACKSOX. 


W.    W.    WHITTLXGTON. 


W.  \V.  Whittington.  grain  dealer 
and  miller.  Vice  President  Marion 
State  and  Savings  Bank.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  is  another  of  the 
solid  men  of  Marion  whose  life  be- 
gan and  has  been  spent  in  this  and 
the  adjoining  counties.  He  was  born 
in  Frankin  county  near  Benton.  May 
Sth,  1S50.  and  spent  his  boyhood  on 
a  farm.  After  the  usual  training  in 
the  common  schools  he  took  a  scien- 
tific course  at  Ewing  College  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1873..  After 
several  terms  of  school  teaching  he 
entered  the  profession  of  surveying 
and  civil  engineering,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  nine  years.  This  brought 
him  into  business  relations  with 
railroad  men  and  he  gradually  got 
into  the  hard-wood  lumber  business, 
dealing  in  bridge  timber,  railroad 
ties.  etc.  Among  other  jobs  he  fur- 
nished all  the  timber  for  bridges  and 
cattle-guards  and  all  the  ties  on  the 
C.  &  E.  L  Ry.  from  Mt.  Vernon  to 
Marion.  This  has.  however,  been 
more  as  a  side  line  with  him.  as 
milling  has  been  the  principal  oc- 
cupation of  his  life.  He  first  oper- 
ated a  flouring  mill  at  Benton,  then 
at  .Tohnson  City  for  four  years,  com- 
ing to  Marion  and  buying  the  Marion 
Elevator  and  Mills  in  1900.  He  did 
not  move  his  family,  however,  until 
two  years  ago.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Rebecca  R.  Mat- 
thews September.  187  5,  by  whom  he 
is  the  father  of  four  children,  two 
sons  and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom 
are  living.  When  the  old  Marion 
hank  was  reorganized  and  became 
the  Marion  State  and  Savings  Bank 
he  became  one  of  its  directors  and 
at  its  annual  election  last  December 
was  elected  Vice  President. 

He  belongs  to  Fellowship  Lodge 
No.  89,  Royal  Arch  Masons. 


The  popular  Cashier  of  the  Ma- 
rion State  and  Savings  Bank  is 
wholly  a  child  of  Marion,  where  he 
was  born  October  9,  1S74.  With 
the  exception  of  two  terms  in  Car- 
bondale  he  received  his  education  in 
the  public  and  High  Schools  of  this 
city  from  which  the  graduated  in 
1893.  For  eighteen  months  he  w-as 
Assistant  Postmaster  and  afterwards 
for  about  twenty  months  Assistant 
Cashier  of  the  Bank  of  Xorris  City. 
White  county,  when  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Old  Bank  of  Marion 
as  Assistant  Cashier.  After  two  and 
one-half  years  he  was  promoted  to 
Cashier.  L^pon  its  reorganization  in 
July.  19113,  he  was  at  once  selected 
by  the  management  for  Cashier, 
which  position  he  still  holds.  In 
July.  189S,  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Carra  Barnes,  of  Xor- 
ris City,  by  whom  he  is  father  of 
one  child.  Pauline,  now  four  years 
old. 

Besides  his  bank  interest  he  is  a 
partner  with  his  father.  J.  C.  Jack- 
son, in  the  furniture  business  on 
West  Jlain  street,  and  Treasurer  of 
Special  School  District  of  Marion. 
He  is  an  active  member  of  the  M. 
E.  church  and  belongs  to  the  K.  of 
P.  and  Modern  Woodmen. 


FRANK   R.    BORTOX. 


Frank  R.  Borton  is  Assistant  Cash- 
ier of  the  Marion  State  and  Savings 
Bank.  This  promising  young  ac- 
countant and  financier  was  born  in 
Marion  September  21,  1884.  His 
parents  were  James  M.  Borton  and 
Anna  Goodali.  He  accompanied 
them  when  an  infant  to  St.  Louis 
and  attendel  the  public  schools  of 
that  city  until  about  fourteen  years 
old  when  he  returned  to  Marion  and 
has  since  made  his  home  with  his 
grandparents,  Frank  Goodali  and 
wife.  Upon  his  return  to  Marion  he 
entered  the  eighth  grade  and  then 
the  High  School  from  w-hich  he  grad- 
uated with  high  honors  in  the  class 
of  1903.  On  the  IGth  of  the  follow- 
ing June  he  got  a  position  as  Book- 
keeper in  the  Marion  State  and  Sav- 
ings Bank,  and  gave  such  good  satis- 
faction that  he  not  only  hell  his 
place,  but  at  the  election  of  officers 
in  October,  190  4.  was  promoted  to 
his  present  position.  Although  not 
yet  21  he  has  established  a  good 
leputation  and  stands  deservedly 
high  in  public  esteem  and  has  a  bril- 
liant future  before  him. 


WILEY   G.   COCHRAX. 

Wiley  G.  Cochran,  lumber  dealer 
and  Director  of  Marion  State  and 
Savings  Bank,  was  born  February 
4.  1863.  in  Benton,  the  county  seat 
of  Franklin  county.  Illinois.  He  re- 
ceived    a     common    school   education 


in  Franklin.  On  January  28,  1891, 
he  married  Miss  Hawley  Esken, 
daughter  of  V  .  L.  Esken,  of  Ben- 
ton. In  1897  he  purchased  the  lum- 
ber yards  of  J.  Vick  &  Company  at 
Marion,  and  moving  his  family  here 
became  a  prominent  resident  of  the 
town.  They  have  one  child.  Mr. 
Cochran  first  became  connected  with 
the  Board  of  Education  in  1901,  but 
his  time  expires  at  the  present  spring 
election,  and  he  does  not  aspire  to 
re-election.  He  carries  a  moderate 
but  finely  assorted  stock  of  lumber 
and  its  usual  branches  at  his  place 
of  business  on  S.  Market  street,  near 
public  square.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  order  of  Hoo  Hoo,  a  lumber- 
mans"  organization,  and  is  a  K.  of 
P..   Monitor,  Lodge  Xo.   236. 


THOMAS  A.   COX. 


Thomas  A.  Cox,  dealer  in  imple- 
ments and  director  of  Marion  State 
and  Savings  Bank,  is  a  native  of  Illi- 
nois, born  in  Union  county.  April 
Sth,  1850.  on  a  farm  near  Jonesboro. 
He  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  follow- 
ed the  occupation  until  a  year  ago 
when  he  removed  to  Marion  and  en- 
tered the  implement  business.  He 
attended  the  common  school  of 
Union  county  until  his  removal  to 
this  county  in  1S71,  when  21  years 
old.  That  same  year.  October  5th. 
he  was  united  in  marraige  to  Miss 
Nancy  C.  Rendleman  and  reared  a 
family  of  five  children  now  living. 
Two  died  in  infancy.  He  never 
united  with  any  secret  order,  but  is 
an  active  member  of  the  Missionary 
Baptist   church. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  pru- 
dent and  successful  as  a  business 
man  and  one  of  the  Directors  of  the 
Marion  State  and  Savings  Bank. 

April  15.  1903.  he  and  A.  M. 
Townsend  went  into  the  implement 
business  under  the  firm  name  of 
Cox  &  Townsend.  They  handle  all 
sorts  of  farm  tools,  wagons,  buggies, 
etc. 


WILLIAM    THOMAS    XEWTOX. 


William  Thomas  Newton.  Director 
of  the  Marion  State  and  Savings 
Bank,  was  born  near  Gallatin.  Sum- 
ner county,  Tennessee.  September 
30th,  1843.  His  parents  move1  to 
Logan  county.  Kentucky,  when  he 
was  an  infant  of  three  or  four 
months  and  to  Williamson  county  in 
1S56,  reaching  here  March  30th. 
when  our  subject  was  12  years  and 
6  months  old.  They  bought  for  $5  00 
the  80  acres  of  land  on  which  the 
Virginia  Mine  is  now  worked,  the 
shaft  being  sunk  on  the  very  4  0 
where  the  house  stood,  four  miles 
north  of  Marion. 

He  was  married  on  the  10th  of 
December,  1863.  to  Elizabeth  Boyd, 
a  native  of  St.  Clair  county,  who 
bore  him  four  children,  all  of  whom 


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are  living.  She  died  on  the  llili  of 
March,  1SS4,  and  on  January  27, 
1SS6,  he  tooli  (or  his  second  wife 
Rebecca  Herrin.  whose  great  grand- 
father settled  on  and  gave  name  to 
the  prairie  on  which  the  town  of 
Herrin  stanis.  She  died  June  9, 
1891.  In  1877  he  was  elected  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace  In  Lake  Creek 
Township,  where  Johnson  City  now 
stands,  and  served  for  nine  years, 
when  he  resigned. 

In  1864  he  moved  Into  the  woods 
one  mile  south  of  the  present  site  of 
Johnson  City  and  lived  there  for 
thirty  years.  No  one  then  dreamed 
of  the  vast  wealth  hidden  in  the 
bowels  of  the  earth  he  peacefully 
tilled  for  so  many  years,  but  after  he 
sold  his  farm  the  great  Williamson 
County   Mine  was  located  on   it. 

He  moved  into  Marion  in  Decem- 
ber, 1S94,  where  he  has  since  lived. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and 
cast  his  first  vote  for  president  for 
Gen.  George  B.  McClelland.  In  De- 
cember, 1903  he  was  elected  one  of 
the  directors  of  the  Marion  State 
and  Savings  Bank.  Marion  was  at 
one  time  a  great  initial  tobacco  mar- 
ket and  as  many  as  fifty  loaded  to- 
bacco wagons  have  been  counted  on 
its  streets  in  a  day.  Countins?  from 
his  Kentucky  experience,  Mr.  New- 
ton planted  and  raised  thirty-one 
crops  of  tobacco  in  succession,  and 
some  of  his  neighbors  did  even  bet- 
ter, showing  the  possibilities  of  to- 
bacco culture  in  Egypt  and  the  ca- 
pabilities of  its  soil. 


M.   L.   BAKER. 


M.  L.  Baker,  a  director  of  the  Ma- 
rion State  and  Savings  Bank  and  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Duncan  & 
Baker.  The  subject  of  our  sketch 
is  the  son  of  T.  D.  Baker  and  Eliza- 
beth J.  (Sanders)  Baker.  The 
father  is  of  English  origin  and  was 
born  in  Mecklenburg  county,  N.  C, 
April  17th,  1822,  emigrated  with  his 
parents  to  Tennessee,  grew  to  man- 
hood, married  and  in  1856  moved  to 
Williamson  county,  Illinois,  locating 
on  a  farm  in  the  southwest  corner  of 
the  county,  where  he  resided  until 
1883,  when  he  sold  his  farm  and 
moved  to  Marion  in  said  county, 
where  he  died  April  28,  1904,  being 
one  of  the  oldest  inhabitants  of  the 
county  at  his  death. 

The  mother  was  born  in  Benton 
county,  Tennessee,  January  19th, 
1828,  and  died  in  Williamson  coun- 
ty. Illinois,  June  13th,  1877.  Aunt 
Lizzie,  as  she  was  familiarly  called, 
was  the  family  physician  and  coun- 
selor in  the  pioneer  families  for 
miles  around  where  she  lived  and 
her  name  and  presence  was  so  indis- 
soluably  connected  with  their  joys 
and  sorrows  that  she  yet  lives 
though   dead. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Benton 
County.  Tennessee,  July  h.  1854.   He 


was  two  years  cf  age  when  his  pa- 
rents moved  to  Williamson  County, 
Illinois.  Ke  grew  to  manhood  on  the 
farm,  attending  school  about  three 
months  each  winter.  At  the  age  of 
si.xteen  he  began  teaching  in  the 
country  schools,  teaching  in  the  win- 
ter and  farming  in  the  summer.  At 
eighteen  he  attended  the  S.  I.  N.  U. 
one  term  and  afterwards  Ewing  Col- 
lege two  terms,  paying  his  expenses 
by  labor  on  the  farm  during  the  in- 
tervening vacations. 

He  studied  law  in  the  offices  of 
Hon.  F.  M.  Youngblood  and  Judge 
D.  M.  Browning,  at  Benton,  Franklin 
County,  Illinois,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  18S1  at  Mount  Vernon, 
111.,  being  one  of  the  sucessful  ap- 
plicants in  a  class  in  which  over  one- 
fourth  failed  to  pass. 

He  first  opened  an  office  in  Carter- 
ville,  this  county,  but  in  the  Spring 
of  1883  located  in  Marion,  where  he 
still  resides.  At  the  Municipal  Elec- 
tion in  18  85  he  was  elected  City  At- 
torney, and  in  1SS6  he  was  appointed 
Master  in  Chancery  of  his  County, 
which  oflice  he  held  for  three  terms. 
September  22nd.  1887,  he  was 
married  to  Amanda  M.  Spiller,  (or 
as  he  puts  it.  he  invested  $1.00  in 
the  matrimonial  lottery  and  drew  the 
capital  prize).  Two  children  bless 
this  union,  Manda  E.  and  Miles  L. 

In  1897  his  health  failed  and 
under  the  advice  of  his  physican, 
with  great  reluctance  he  abandoned 
his  chosen   profession. 

fn  the  Fall  of  the  same  year  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  John  H. 
Duncan  and  engaged  in  the  retail 
hardware  and  furniture  trade.  The 
business  of  the  firm  prospered  and 
in  the  Fall  of  1903  the  business  was 
incorporated  under  the  name  of 
Duncan— Baker  Hardware  Co.,  capital 
stock  $30,000.00:  a  branch  store 
established  at  Johnston  City  and  a 
jobbing  department  added.  He  is  the 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  said  cor- 
poration. 

At  the  organization  of  the  Marion 
State  and  Savings  Bank  he  was  elect- 
ed a  member  of  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors, was  appointed  as  a  member 
of  the  committee  on  auditing  and  ex- 
amination of  accounts,  and  still  holds 
said  offices. 


Sltlltamsoti  County  Saxnngs 
Banh. 

The  following  is  a  statement  of  the 
condition  of  the  Williamson  County 
Savings  Bank,  a  group  of  whose  oflS- 
cers  appears  on  page  4  9  of  this  Sou- 
venir, before  the  commencement  of 
business  on   May   31,    1905: 

RESOURCES. 

Loans  and  discounts $142  379  50 

Uverdrafts 291  70 

Furniture  and  Fixtures 2.37.'!  00 

Due  from  National  Banks  26  247  50 

Cash  on  hand— a    Gold  coin 685  00 

Gold  Treasury  Certificates  2  4'iO  00 

b.    Silver  Coin  . .'. .     ...  649  00 


Silver  Treas'y  Certificatfs  2,476  00 

c.  National  fank  Currency.-  985  00 

d.  Leg  1  tender  and  treas.n.ts  487  00 

e.  Fracfl  cur'cy,  nickels,  cts  6  7S 

Total jTaobTiS 

LLABILITIES. 

Capital  stock  paid  in 50,000  00 

f',"'\P'"5  P"j;d.  60C00O 

L  ndivided  Profits,  less  expenses  and 

TiJi'i^^^^''^-     U   ■; '■«"  77 

1  ime  Deposits,  hayings  2,2k8  63 

_        "Certificates 65,576  75 

Demand  deposits.  Individuals 53  389  38 

Total $179,062  43 

W.  S.  BURKHART,  Cashier. 

Son  of  J.  M.  Burkhart  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  dry  goods  firm  of  Burk- 
hart and  Sons,  is  a  native  of  the 
city  of  Marion,  where  he  was  born 
August  2Sth,  1S7S.  His  schooling 
has  been  confined  wholly  to  the  ex- 
cellent public  schools  of  the  city,  and 
when  not  in  school  he  made  himself 
useful  clerking  in  his  father's 
store.  When  but  17  his  energies  and 
ambitious  character  asserted  them- 
selves in  the  complete  mastery  of  the 
mysteries  of  Electric  Lighting  by 
running  the  plant  at  Marion  as  he 
got  a  chance  at  intervals,  until  the 
authorites  could  safely  trust  him  in 
full  charge  at  any  time. 

In  1S9  8  he  graduated  from  the  Ma- 
rion High  School,  an""  for  three  and 
a  half  years  was  assistant  cashier  of 
the  bank  of  Marion.  In  August, 
1S91,  he  organized  the  private  bank 
of  Dennison,  Parks  &  C,  at  Gore- 
ville.  111.,  and  became  its  first  cash- 
ier. He  held  this  position  but  a  year 
and  a  half,  however,  for  upon  the 
organization  of  the  Williamson  Co. 
Savings  Bank  he  was  invited  to  be- 
come its  cashier  and  accepted.  This 
took  him  back  home,  which  was 
much  to  his  liking,  and  he  has  re- 
tained the  situation  ever  since. 

Mr.  Burkhart  is  young,  but  by  his 
conservatism  in  the  management 
shows  a  natural  aptitude  for  finance 
and  has  a  bright  future  before  him. 
He  belongs  to  the  Christian  church 
and  is  a  member  of  its  choir,  but  as 
yet  a  bachelor.  He  takes  an  inter- 
est in  fraternal  matters,  and  belongs 
to  several  orders. 

He  is  a  member  of  Monitor  Lodge 
No.  236  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  Master  of  the  Exchequer.  He 
also  belongs  to  Goreville  Loige  No. 
528  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  the  Woodman's 
Camp   No.    3336. 


J.   B.  BAINBRIDGE. 


Mr.  Bainbridge  was  born  in  Wil- 
liamson county,  near  Marion,  Feb- 
ruary 19,  183  7.  He  engaged  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  in  Ma- 
rion in  1856,  and  after  45  years  is 
still  as  active  in  trade  and  manage- 
ment as  when  a  youth  of  19  he  wait- 
ed on  his  first  customer.  He  has 
been  uniformly  successful  and  longer 
in  business  than  any  other  in  Wil- 
liamson county.  In  1860-1  he  built 
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feet  in  dimensions,  on  the  soiitli  side 
of  our  public  square,  tlie  corner 
store  room  of  wliich  has  ever  since 
been  occupied  by  him  for  purposes 
of  his  business.  It  is  three  stories 
in  height,  with  the  upper  portion  de- 
vote! to  residence  purposes,  and 
here  Mr.  Bainbridge  and  family 
have  made  their  comfortable  home 
for  many  years. 

He  has  always  taken  part  in  move- 
ments calculated  in  furtherance  of 
community  interests,  and  is  among 
the  most  substantial  of  our  citizens. 
He  assisted  at  organization  of  the 
Marion  Building  and  Loan  Associa- 
tion, and  has  been  its  vice-president 
for  1  0  years.  He  helped  organize 
the  First  National  Bank  in  1S91,  and 
has  been  vice-president  and  a  di- 
rector, as  well  as  large  shareholder 
in  that  institution  ever  since.  He 
was  marriei  September  7,  1S.59,  to 
Josephine  Goddard,  daughter  of 
James  T.  Goddard,  one  of  our  former 
merchants,  and  they  have  four  liv- 
ing children,  James  A.,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  the  jewelry  and  watchmak- 
ing business  here:  Charles  \V.,  who  is 
a  banker  at  Xorris  City,  this  state; 
Luella,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  L.  A. 
Browning,  of  the  Ely-Walker  Dry 
Goods  Co.,  St.  Louis,  and  Maude  W., 
wife  of  J.  L.  Parham.  traveling  sales- 
man for  the  Desnoyers-Courtney 
Shoe   Co. 

Success  having  crowned  the  labors 
of  a  lifetime,  Mr.  Bainbridge  look- 
ing no  oHer  than  the  average  man 
of  50,  is  quietly  reaping  the  rewards 
of  decades  of  industry  in  the  chan- 
nels of  commerce,  while  continuing 
to  devote  his  attention  to  the  details 
of  a  large  and  long  since  firmly  estab- 
lished trade. 


M.  CANTOR. 


The  above  named  gentleman,  who 
scarcely  needed  his  long  title  to 
make  sure  he  is  a  typical  merchant 
of  his  class,  was  born  July  2  7,  iS-tS, 
in  Prussia,  Germany.  His  father, 
Nathan  Cantor,  who  brought  up  his 
son  to  the  mercantile  business,  ne.er 
came  to  America,  but  died  in  Ger- 
many in'lSS2.  The  son  came  to  De- 
Soto.  Jackson  County,  Hlinois,  in 
1859.  With  true  mercantile  instinct 
he  opened  up  a  general  merchandise 
store  on  his  own  account  three  years 
later,  when  only  fourteen  years  of 
age.  One  year  later,  in  the  spring  of 
1S63,  we  find  him  dealing  in  general 
merchandise  in  Memphis,  Tenn., 
thence  to  Cobden,  111.,  later  to  Anna, 
111.,  in  1S66,  where  he  remained  un- 
til 1S74.  He  then  made  a  tour  of 
the  continent  remaining  until  the 
spring  of  1S76.  The  autumn  follow- 
ing, the  present  business  was  start- 
ed. At  that  time  Marion  was  a  small 
affair,  boasting  of  only  about  800 
population,  and  Mr.  Cantor  had  a 
hand  in  shaping  almost  everything 
from  the  beginning.  He  was  one  of 
the    directors    of    the    First    National 


Bank  at  its  organization,  and  is  a  di- 
rector of  the  Williamson  County  Sav- 
ings Bank  at  the  present  time.  He 
married  Miss  Sarah  Yesky,  of  New 
York  City,  January  2  7,  1878.  His 
elegant  home  on  South  Market  St., 
where  they  still  reside,  was  erected 
in  1893.  at  a  cost  of  $5000.00.  In 
Masonry,  Mr.  Cantor  has  attained 
the  degree  of  Royal  and  Select  Mas- 
ter. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  En- 
campment of  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  a  char- 
ter member  of  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Cantor  have  two  children, 
Bertha  and  Lillian,  the  first  having 
married  Mr.  Charles  W.  Schwerdt, 
now  in  business  here.  Mr.  Cantor 
carries  a  large  and  well  selected 
stock  of  goods  in  his  line  in  the  Ben- 
son Building  at  the  northeast  corner 
of  the  public  square,  and  keeps  in  his 
employ  two  clerks,  W.  B.  Lee  and 
Robert  Jeter.  The  former  has  been 
with  him  for  many  years  and  Mr. 
Cantor's  establishment  is  one  of  the 
oldest  in  this  county. 


JOAB   GOODALL. 


The  grandfather  and  namesake  of 
this  sketch  came  from  Wilson  county, 
Tenn.,  in  1S28,  and  settled  on  what 
is  now  known  as  the  old  Goodall 
farm,  three  miles  south  of  .Marion. 
.\t  this  time  John  Goodall.  Joab's 
father,  was  but  six  years  old.  The 
latter  never  quite  forsook  farming, 
though  most  of  his  life  was  spent  in 
Marion,  of  which  he  may  be  regard- 
ed as  one  of  the  founders,  in  the  suc- 
cessful conduct  of  a  general  mer- 
chandise business  which  he  con- 
ducted until  1888,  when  he  retired 
to  accept  the  postmastership  during 
the  Cleveland  adminiWration.  This 
position  he  held  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1897.  He  was  sheriff  of 
Williamson  county  in  the  '50's,  and 
during  his  long  life,  an  important 
factor  in  the  politics,  business  and 
progress  of  this  pnrt   of  the  state. 

Joab  Goodall,  whose  portrait  and 
that  of  his  lovely  and  accomplished 
wife,  accompanies  this  sketch,  was 
born  at  Marion  March  4,  18  58.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools, 
and  at  Carbondale  Normal,  and  on 
attaining  his  majority  became  as- 
sociated with  his  father  in  business. 
This  relation  continued  until  the 
latter's  retirement  from  mercantile 
pursuits  in  1S8S.  when  Joab  struck 
out  for  himself,  and  engaging  in  the 
purchase  and  sale  of  horses  and 
mules,  soon  became  known  as  the 
most  liberal  and  successful  dealer  in 
his  line  in  Southern  Illinois,  and 
through  him  Marion  has  the  most  ex- 
tensive market  in  a  radius  of  a  hun- 
dred miles.  His  operations,  and  the 
assurance  of  a  ready  market  at  top 
prices,  have  done  much  to  encourage 
the  farmers  of  this  and  adjoining 
counties  in  the  breeding  of  fine  stock, 
and  foreign  dealers  now  look  to  this 
section  as  a  source  of  certain  supply. 


from  year  to  year.  1500  mules,  most- 
ly high  grade  and  valued  at  upwards 
of  $125,000  passed  through  his  hands 
during  the  year  just  closed.  He 
utilizes  two  large  stock  barns,  one 
on  North  Market  Street,  with  sta- 
bling for  75  or  more  head,  and  one 
just  off  the  northwest  corner  of  our 
public  square.  The  latter  of  brick, 
completed  in  the  Spring  of  1901,  is 
54x150  feet  in  dimensions,  two 
stories  in  height,  lighted  and  ven- 
tilated like  a  hotel  and  has  stabling 
capacity  of  150  heal  of  horses  and 
mules,  with  ample  room  for  storage 
of  hay,  feed  and  grain.  Half  tone 
engraving  of  this  structure  will  be 
found    in    this    volume. 

Though  regarding  it  as  his  voca- 
tion, Mr.  Goodall  has  not  confined 
himself  to  operations  in  live  stock. 
As  early  as  1893,  when  owing  to  the 
efforts  of  A.  F.  White  and  other  en- 
terprising and  public  spirited  citi- 
zens, attention  was  effectively  di- 
rected to  the  immense  coal  fields  of 
Williamson  county,  resulting  in  ex- 
tension of  the  C.  &  E.  I.  Ry.,  through 
the  county  and  on  to  Thebes,  and 
the,  at  first  somewhat  tentative,  in- 
vestment of  capital  looking  to  devel- 
opment of  our  mines,  Mr.  Goodall 
set  apart  40  acres  of  his  300-acre 
farm,  lying  immeliately  north  of  the 
line  of  the  I.  C.  Ry.,  and  converted 
the  same  into  what  is  known  as 
Goodall's  First  Addition  to  Marion. 
This  was  followed  in  1895  by  Good- 
all's  Second  Addition,  comprising  15 
acres,  and  in  1898  by  a  Third  of  20 
acres:  in  June,  1901,  by  a  Fourth 
and  Fifth  of  15  and  5  acres,  and  cul- 
minating that  year  in  a  Sixth  and 
Seventh,  of  60  and  of  8  acres,  re- 
spectively. The  whole,  approximate- 
ing  163  acres,  is  beautifully  situated 
and  indicates  300  building  lots,  aver- 
aging 80xl67i/,  feet  each.  Three- 
fourths  of  these  have  been  sold,  built 
on  and  are  now  occupied  as  homes, 
the  many  handsome  modern  struc- 
tures among  them,  making  this  one 
of  the  most  attractive  residence  dist- 
ricts of  Marion.  The  new  Coal  Belt 
Electric  Ry.,  in  its  course  along 
North  Market  Street,  traverses  these 
additions  at  nearly  center,  making 
Spillertown,  two  miles  to  the  north, 
and  Marion  business  streets,  as  it 
soon  will  the  towns  of  Herrin  and 
Carterville.  easily  accessible. 

Going  a  step  farther  we  find  Mr. 
Goodall  interested  for  the  last  eight 
years  in  Williamson  county  coal 
lands  and  their  development.  In  this 
connection  it  is  not  too  much  to  say 
he  has  been  an  aid  in  important 
sales,  such  as  those  to  J.  W.  Gates, 
the  Illinois  Steel  Co.  and  the  Leiters, 
involving  great  industrial  possibili- 
ties in  Marion. 

Upon  the  organization  of  the  Wil- 
liamson County  Savings  Bank,  on  the 
15th  of  January,  1903,  Mr.  Goodall 
was  elected  its  first  president,  and  at 
its  annual  meeting  of  the  present 
year,  all  the  officials  were  re-electel. 


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SOU\ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS 


Physicians  and 
Surgeons. 


Without  indulging  in  any  fulsonie 
laudation,  it  is  proper  and  entirely 
within  the  sphere  o(  sober  truth,  to 
say  that  the  medical  fraternity  of 
this  county  have  no  superiors  in 
their  line  in  the  country,  unless  we 
except  the  great  cities  who  have  ex- 
ceptional opportunities  for  acquirinii 
skill  in  practice  in  difficult  and  un- 
usual cases.  The  general  health  and 
long  life  of  the  community  testify 
to  their  skill  and  faithfulness  in  the 
practice  of  medicine,  and  several 
well-known  cases  of  extreme  diffi- 
culty and  delicacy  carried  to  success- 
ful issue  speak  well  for  their  skill  in 
surgery. 

The  practice  of  medicine,  like  all 
other  professions,  has  had  its  day 
of  small  things  in  Williamson  Co. 
It  has  had  to  struggle  with  well- 
r/.eaning  ignorance  and  incompe- 
tence, imprudent  and  irresponsible 
quacks,  insufficient  or  ill-digested 
laws,  as  well  as  the  usuil  number  of 
chronic  dead  beats,  not  to  mention 
the  early  poverty  of  the  country  and 
the  usual  quantity  of  deserving  and 
helpless  sufferers.  But  through  all 
discouragements  and  difficulties  the 
noble  profession  has  gone  steadily 
forward,  eliminating  ignorance,  in- 
competence and  fraud,  acquiring  skill 
and  establishing  system,  co-operation 
and  harmony  among  its  members  and 
continually  acquiring  a  greater  repu- 
tation for  skill  and  establishing  a 
higher  standard  of  medical  ethics, 
until  it  has  no  superior,  if  an  equal, 
in  the  State  or  Nation. 

In  July,  1902,  the  profession  in 
Marion  found  it  necessary  to  organ- 
ize a  Physicians'  Protection  Associa- 
tion for  obvious  reasons  stated  in  t'^e 
preamble  to  their  constitution  and 
by-laws.      This   was; 

"To  establish  a  uniform  Fee  Bill 
to  promote  professional  fraternity, 
uphold  the  standard  of  medical 
ethics,  and  secure  for  ourselves  a 
iust   recompense  for   our   services." 

It  was  at  first  organized  with 
twelve  members  and  meets  on  the 
recond  Monday  evening  of  each 
month.  The  following  are  the  names 
of  its  present  officers  and  members: 
D.  D.  Hartwell,  president:  W.  B. 
mark,  vice  president;  A.  M.  Ed- 
wards secretary;  G.  J.  Baker,  assist- 
ant secretary;  L.  B.  Casey,  treasurer. 
Wm  H.  Bentley.  Curtis  Brown,  .T.  F. 
Tidwell,  P.  C.  Stadley,  E.  M.  Ro- 
-amel,  I.  C.  Walker.  W.  F.  Tidwell, 
V,  A.  Baker,  G.  W.  Evans.  W.  Willi- 
ford.  F.   P.   Gillis.   members. 


In  addition  to  the  above  Society. 
the  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the 
County  organize!  the  Williamson 
County  Medical  Association,  about 
twenty  years  ago,  but  having  de- 
clined and  fallen  into  neglect,  it  was 
re-organized  on  October  2G,  19(13. 
Its  preamble  announces  its  purpose 
in  the  following  language: 

"the  cultivation  and  advancement 
of  knowledge  upon  all  subjects  per- 
taining to  the  healing  art,  and  the 
promotion  of  the  usefulness,  honor 
and  interests  of  the  medical  profes- 
sion, by  encouraging  a  generous  emu- 
lation and  a  friendly  intercourse 
among  its  members."  It  has  regu- 
lar semi-annual  meetings  on  the  sec- 
ond Monday  in  May  and  October. 

The  following  are  its  officers  and 
members: 

G.    J.    Baker,     Marion,    president : 
Columbus  Brown,  Creal  Springs,  vice 
president;    A.    M.    Edwards,    Marion, 
secretary;  L.  B.  Casey,  Marion,  treas- 
urer.    Curtis  Brown,  Marion:   W.  H. 
Bentley,    Marion;     Columbus  Brown, 
Creal  Springs:   H.  A.  Berry,  Herrin: 
D.  S.  Boles,  Herrin;  G.  .1.  Baker,  Ma- 
rion;    V.    A.    Baker,    Marion:    J.    B. 
Burns,    New    Denison:     J.    H.    Cole- 
man,   Crainville:    W.    E.    Clark,    Ma- 
rion:  B.  F.  Crain,  Carterville;   L.  B. 
Casey,  Marion;    A.  M.  Edwards.  Ma- 
rion;   G.    W.    Evans,    Marion:    H     N. 
Ferrill,  Carterville;  B.  R.  Felts,  Lal^e 
Creek;    W.    H.    Ford,    Herrin:    F.    P. 
Gillis,     Marion;      Theodore    Hudson, 
Hudgens;      D.      H.      Harris.      Creal 
Springs:   D.  D.  Hartwell,  Marion.   M. 
Hendrickson,    Halfway;     E.    M.    Ro- 
tramel.  Marion:    W.   F.   Tidwell,   Ma- 
■■ion:    J.    B.    Miller,    Marion:    J.    W. 
Vick,    Carterville:    W.    C.    WiUifoid, 
Marion;    Ira   Roberts,   .Tohnson   City; 
W.     P.     Sutherland,     Creal     Springs; 
George    S.    Roberts,    Corinth;    R.    M. 
C.    Throgmorton,   Herrin:    A.    P.    Ba- 
ker, Cottage  Home;  G.  J.  Baker,  Cot- 
tage    Home;      James     Hayton,     de- 
ceased,   Carbondale;    P.    C.    Stradley. 
Marion;   I.  C.  Walker,  Marion,  mem- 
bers. 

On  the  10th  of  November,  1904. 
the  Williamson  County  Medical  As- 
sociation met  for  the  regular  annual 
election  of  officers  with  the  follow- 
ing result: 

Dr.  A.  M.  Edwards,  president: 
D.  D.  Hartwell,  secretary:  L.  B. 
Casey,  treasurer. 


1SS2.  After  two  years  spent  in  the 
Wyoming  Seminary,  Dr.  Bennett  be- 
gan the  study  of  medicine  un  er  Dr. 
Ademak  Strong,  at  Honesdale.  where 
he  spent  one  year,  and  then  entered 
the  Ohio  Medical  College,  remaining 
until   the   Spring   of    1S53. 

After  graduating  he  came  to  Union 
County,    Illinois,    and    entered    upon 
the   practice   of    medicine,    which    he 
followed    until   the   breaking   out     of 
the  war.     His  sympathies  being  with 
the  South,   he  at   once   went   to   Mis- 
souri   and    enlisted    in    the    Missouri 
State    Guards,    from    which    he    was 
transferred  to  the  regular  Confeder- 
ate   army    un'ler    Brigadier    General 
Jeff  Thompson.        He  was  appointed 
assistant   surgeon   by   him    December 
13,    1S62,   and   remained   in   the  ser- 
vice until  the  close  of  the  war.     He 
was    parolled    by    General    Canby    at 
Macon.  Ga.,  at  the  close  of  the  strug- 
gle,   and    returned    to    Madison    Co., 
Missouri,    in    1S65.         He   fought     at 
Vicksburg,   and  when  it  surrendered 
he    went    to    Mississippi,    where    he 
ma-ried.     His  wife's  name  was  Nora 
Hargon.   a   Mississippi   lady.        After 
he    returned    to   Madison    County     in 
IS 65   he  spent   a  year   farming    and 
then  came  with  his  family  to  Marion, 
where  he  has  since  ren-'ained.     Four 
children  are  the  fruit  of  their  union: 
Mary,   Edward,   Harriet   and   Myron. 

The  Doctor  is  one  of  the  charter 
members  of  the  Williamson  County 
Medical  Association,  and  a  member 
also  of  the  Physicians'  Protective 
Medical  Association  of  Marion.  He 
is  a  democrat  and  a  member  of  the 
Catholic   Church. 


DR.  ELIJAH  M.  ROTRAMEL 


DR.  W'.  H.  BENTLEY,  Marion. 

Was  born  in  Honesdale,  Pennsyl- 
vania, November  9,  1835.  His  fath- 
er Alonzo  Bennett,  was  a  shipwright 
bv  trade  and  died  at  Port  Jarvis,  N. 
.7  His  mother  was  Rachel  Mande- 
ville  who  came  west  with  her  son 
and    died    in    Marion    in    December, 


Physician    and    surgeon,    was   born 
in   Frankfort,   Franklin   County,    111., 
in   IS 43.     He  was  the  son   of  Henry 
and     Eliza   J.     (Maddox)     Rotramel. 
The  father  was  born  in  North   Ca'-o- 
lina     in    ISOS,    of    German     descent: 
came    to    Wilson    County,    Tenn.,    in 
his  vouth;    married   the   daughter  of 
Elijah  Maddox,  a  Baptist  minister,  in 
1S31;    moved  to  Franklin  County  in 
1532-   served  100  days  in  the  Black- 
hawk    War,     and     died   in    January. 
tS67.      The  wife  was  born   in    1S12, 
bore  seven  children  and  died  in  18  65. 
Our  subject  was  educated  at  Ewin',- 
College.    and    worked    on    the    farm 
with     his   father     until     the    latter's 
death.     He  began  teaching  when  22. 
taught     for   22   months   in   Franklin 
and   Williamson   counties,  taking   up 
the  studv     of  medicine     the     mean- 
while,    in  1869-70  he  studied  under 
Dr    T.  M.   Sams,   of  Tamaroa.   Perry 
Countv,  where  he  began  to  practice. 
In  1S71  he  located  on  Moore's  Prai- 
■ie     Jefferson    County,    and    in    1S76 
located    in   Franklin,   where   he   con- 
tinued  to  practice   until   he   removed 
to  Marion  in  April.   1900. 

His    marriage    took    place    Decem- 
ber,   1876,    to   Miss   Belle,    daughter 


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GROUP  OF  PHYSICIANS  OF  MARION. 
Reading  from  left  to  right.  Top  row — W.  C.  Williford,  W.   H.   Ceucley,     J.    F.    Tidwell      (father),     W.    K. 
Clark,  James  B.  Miller.     Second  low — W.  F.  Tidwell   (son),  Frank  P.  Gillis,   Levi  B.  Casey,  G.  J.  Baker.  Jv.. 
V.  A.  S.  Baker.     Third  Row — B.  M.  Rotramel.  I.  C.  Walker.  D.  D.  Hartwell,  A.  M.  Edwards,  Curtis  Brown. 


of  William  and  Caroline  Kimmell. 
She  was  born  in  Union  County  in 
1853,  and  has  given  her  husband 
seven  children,  Decosa  E.,  May,  de- 
ceased: Homer  A..  Hattie  D..  Nellie 
A..  Ernest  and  Andrew.  In  IS.Sl 
he  served  one  year  as  County  Supt. 
of  Schools.  He  is  a  Republican  and 
a  member  of  the  Christian  Church. 
He  belongs  to  the  Williamson  County 
Medical  Association  and  to  the  Ma- 
rion Medical  Protective  Association, 
an1  Southern  Illinois  Medical  Asso- 
ciation. 


DR.    .JAMES    BAILEY    MILLER. 


DR.  GEO.  W.  EVANS. 


Born  in  Logan  County,  Kentucky, 
October  1,  1S4.S.  It  was  in  his  na- 
tive state  his  boyhood  days  were 
largely  :  pent,  and  habits  formed  that 
led  him  into  the  calling  he  has  suc- 
cessfully filled.  Being  reared  as  he 
was,  by  a  physician,  his  father,  W. 
S.  Evans,  who  recently  died  in  this 
city  at  the  age  of  96,  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine  early  in  life  and 
is  a  graduate  of  the  St.  Louis  Medi- 
cal College.  He  moved  with  his  pa- 
rents to  Missouri  when  but  a  young 
man,  and  has  practiced  medicine  in 
Missouri  and  Illinois.  Came  to  Ma- 
rion 1S79,  where  he  paid  close  at- 
tention to  his  profession.  Politically 
the  Doctor  has  been  and  is  acting 
with  the  Democratic  party,  but  has 
lost  no  time  nor  neglected  his  profes- 
sion to  seek  position  or  advance  the 
claim  of  others  to  office,  having 
served  only  as  an  alderman  in  this 
city  in  an  official  capacity.  He  has, 
from  youth  to  the  present,  been  con- 
nected with  the  Southern  Methodist 
Church. 


Dr.  James  Bailey  Miller  was  born 
May  13,  1856,  in  South  America,  Sa- 
line County,  Illinois.  His  father, 
Bryant  Miller,  was  a  farmer  and 
died  of  acute  pneumonia  at  the  early 
age  of  34,  February  26,  1.S65.  His 
mother  was  Martha  D.  Russell, 
daughter  of  Capt.  David  Bailey  Rus- 
sell, a  hero  of  the  Blackhawk  War, 
who  was  wounded  with  an  arrow  in 
the  massacre  at  Chicago  among  the 
Sand  Hills  along  the  lake  shore 
about  where  the  Douglas  monument 
now  stands.  For  her  second  hus- 
band Mrs.  Miller  married  James  D. 
Wriston,  who  served  during  the  Civil 
War.     She  died  at   the  age  of  -19. 

The  boy  received  such  education  as 
the  common  school  of  those  d-<ys 
could  give,  till  about  15  years  old, 
when  he  made  his  home  with  W  S. 
Blackman,  at  Creal  Springs,  and  was 
under  his  tuition  for  two  ternn.  Af- 
ter one  term  under  James  E.  Jobe  tie 
passed  his  school  examination  and 
took  a  teacher's  certificate,  but  did 
not  take  a  school.  When  but  IS 
years  old  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine,  in  1874,  at  his  home,  un- 
der Dr.  Benjamin  D.  Lewis.  Three 
years  later  he  began  to  practice 
among  his  neighbors.  Later  he  en- 
tered the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  at  St.  Louis,  and  in  1898 
matriculated.  Instead,  however,  of 
taking  a  fourth  year  in  that  College, 
he  had  the  opportunity  of  pursuing 
his  studies  with  Dr.  G.  H.  Gorden,  of 
Chicago,  and  in  October,  1895,  was 
examined  by  the  State  Board  of 
Health  and  received  certificate  No. 
293.  For  some  years  he  practiced 
in  company  with  Dr.  B.  S.  Young,  at 


Stone  Fort,  and  did  not  move  to  Ma- 
rion until  April  of  the  present  year. 
July  4,  187  8,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Maggie  Young,  the  daughter  of  the 
man  who  later  became  his  partner. 
Nine  children  were  born  of  this 
union,  all  of  whom  are  living. 

Dr.  Miller  belongs  to  the  Saline 
County  Medical  Association  and  the 
Marion  Medical  Protective  Associa- 
tion. He  is  an  Odd  Fellow,  Saline 
County  Lodge,  No.  874,  a  Modern 
Woodman  at  Carriers  Mills,  Saline 
County,  and  a  member  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Baptist  church  in  South 
America,  his  old  home. 


DR.   W.   C.   WILLIFORD. 

Dr.  Williford  is  a  native  of  this 
County,  and  has  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  within  its  limits.  De- 
voted to  the  first  and  noblest  of  the 
professions,  he  has  risen  from  fol- 
lowing the  plow  to  rank  among  the 
highest  in  the  County.  He  first  saw 
the  light  on  a  farm  about  three 
miles  from  Creal  Springs.  His  pa- 
rents were  farmers,  and  he  did  the 
usual  farm  work  summers,  attending 
school  winters  until  he  made  choice 
of  a  profession.  But  he  spent  1873 
and  1874  in  the  Medical  Department 
of  the  Northwestern  University  at 
Chicago,  and  without  graduating  re- 
turned home  and  for  six  years  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  this  and  the  ad- 
joining counties  in  Illinois,  and  in 
Davis  County.  Indiana.  He  then 
took  a  course  in  the  Medical  College 
of  Indiana  at  Indianapolis,  from 
which  he  took  his  diploma  in  18.S1. 
From  that  time  until  he  moved  here 
his  practice  was  in  Montgomery  and 
Washington,  in  Davis  County  and  in 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


this  County,  gradually  concentratins 
at  Marion  until  his  removal  iu  1903. 
His  wife's  maiden  name  was  Lu- 
cinda  Wiley,  daughter  of  Woodford 
Wiley,  to  whom  he  was  united  in 
marriage  September  20,  IS70.  The 
fruit  of  this  union  was  eight  chil- 
dren, of  whom  four  only  survive. 
Their  names  are  Mrs.  Laura  Schu- 
bert, Geo.  A.,  Leo  and  William.  He 
stands  connected  with  the  William- 
son County  Medical  Association,  and 
the  Marion  Physicians'  Protective 
Association.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
K.  P's.  and  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. 


DR.    W.    F.   TIDWELL. 

Dr.  W.  F.  Tidwell  was  born  at  At- 
tila.  111.,  August  11,  1S79,  attended 
the  common  schools  in  the  County, 
graduating  from  Crab  Orchard  Acad- 
emy in  1S96.  He  attended  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at 
St.  Louis,  from  which  he  graduated 
April,  1901.  He  practiced  his  pro- 
fession for  two  years  at  Crab  Or- 
chard, and  moved  to  Marion,  where 
he  has  been  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine since. 


DR.    I.    C.    WALKER. 


Dr.  I.  C.  Walker  was  born  at  Gore- 
ville,  Johnson  County,  111.,  .January 
18,  1S71.  He  attended  the  rural 
district  schools  till  his  15th  year, 
when  he  entered  the  Southern  Illi- 
nois Normal  University,  remaining 
until  he  was  22,  teaching  school  at 
intervals.  He  then  entered  the 
American  Medical  College  at  St. 
Louis,  an  Eclectic  school  of  medi- 
cine. After  spending  one  year  at 
this  institution,  he  matriculated  and 
subsequently,  March  17,  1891,  grad- 
uated at  the  St.  Louis  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons.  The  Doc- 
tor practiced  his  profession  at  Pul- 
ley's Mill,  in  this  County,  until  he 
was  appointed  House  Surgeon  at  the 
St.  Louis  Baptist  Hospital,  but  de- 
siring to  re-engage  in  the  general 
practice  of  medicine,  he  located  at 
Marion,  111.,  where  he  has  built  up 
an  extensive  practice.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  various  medical  associa- 
tions, and  local  surgeon  for  the  C. 
&  E.  I.  Railroad. 

DR.    ALONZO   M.   EDWARDS. 

Dr.  Alonzo  M.  Edwards  is  a  native 
product  of  Marion  It  was  his  birth- 
place, his  school  and  has  been  his 
home  until  the  present  time.  With 
the  exception  of  one  year  spent  in 
the  Northern  Indiana  Normal  at  Val- 
paraiso, his  training  was  secured 
here  until  he  entered  upon  the 
study  of  medicine.  He  first  entered 
Vanderbilt  University  at  Nashville, 
but  becoming  dissatisfied  put  in  a 
year  in  the  Medical  Department  of 
the  Northwestern  University  in  Chi- 
cago.    He  then  returned  to  Nashville 


and  completed  his  course,  graduating 
in  March,  1S94.  Immediately  there- 
after he  came  to  Marion  and  "stuck 
out   his  shingle." 

His  wife  was  Miss  Lizzie  Marsh, 
the  daughter  of  Enoch  Marsh,  of 
Fairburg,  Illinois.  They  were  mar- 
ried December  24,  1S91.  Two  chil- 
dren have  blessed  their  union,  Chas. 
Marsh,  12  years  old,  and  Gladys,  9. 
Dr.  Edwards  has  always  been  active 
in  all  the  important  interests  of  his 
native  city,  particularly  in  educa- 
tional matters.  When  the  old  school 
trustee  system  was  abandoned  for 
the  present,  he  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  Board  of  Education, 
and  has  served  continuously  tor  sev- 
en years.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
last  building  committee,  wliich  erect- 
ed the  fine  Second  Ward  school 
house,  just  completed.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Williamson  County  Med- 
ical Association,  and  Secretary  of  the 
Physicians'  Medical  Protective  Asso- 
ciation. He  is  a  Mason  and  has  been 
Senior  Warulen  and  Secretary  of  the 
A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He  is  a  Democrat  in 
politics. 


LEVI   B.    CASEY,    M.   D. 


Dr.  Casey  is  a  native  of  Johnson 
County,  111.  He  was  born  March  22, 
1S63,  and  is  the  son  of  Capt.  Levi  B. 
Casey,  of  Company  D,  31st  111.  Vol.  I. 
He  received  his  early  training  in  the 
public  schools.  While  pursuing  his 
medical  studies,  he  taught  school  in 
Bainbridge  during  1882,  and  gradu- 
ated in  the  medical  department  of 
the  University  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  in 
188  5.  In  the  Spring  of  18  86  he 
moved  to  Marion  and  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  partnership 
with  Dr.  E.  L.  Denison,  then  in  the 
drug  business.  In  1888  he  took  a 
post  graduate  course  in  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Chi- 
cago. He  was  appointel  pension  ex- 
aminer by  President  Ben  Harrison, 
which  position  he  has  retained  until 
the  present  time,  with  the  exception 
of  an  interregnum,  during  the  sec- 
ond administration  of  President 
Cleveland.  April  5,  1889,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Laura 
B.  Lowe,  daughter  of  Frank  Lowe, 
of  whom  was  born  one  son.  Clyde  L. 
Casey,  now  fourteen  years  old. 
Skillful,  reliable  and  faithful  in  his 
chosen  profession,  Dr.  Casey  has  en- 
joyed till  the  present  time  a  lucrative 
general  practice,  and  still  retains 
the  unshaken  confidence  of  his  fel- 
low physicians  and  the  general  pub- 
lic. He  has  been  a  member  of  the 
K.  of  P.  a  good  many  years,  ani  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  Order  of 
Elks,  with  whom  he  is  still  con- 
nected. 


Canton,  Ohio.  He  chose  the  profes- 
sion of  medicine  and  began  to  prac- 
tice in  1876,  one  year  before  he 
graduated  at  the  Missouri  Medical 
College  at  St.  Louis,  so  that  he  has 
been  devoted  to  his  profession  for 
nearly  twenty-nine  years  out  of 
fifty,  and  has  climbed  very  near  to 
the  top  of  the  ladder.  After  practic- 
ing ten  years  at  Cutler,  Perry  Co., 
111.,  he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  Penitentiary  of 
Chester,  where  he  served  for  six 
years.  He  then  removed  to  St.  Louis 
and  took  up  the  professorship  of  Ob- 
stetrics of  the  Woman's  Medical  Col- 
lege and  also  assistant  to  the  Chair 
of  Abdominal  Surgery  at  the  College 
of  Physicians,  and  Surgeons  at  St. 
Louis.  At  the  same  time  he  had 
charge  of  the  free  dispensary  for 
diseases  of  women  and  children  in 
the  same  college. 

On  February  29,  1896,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Etta  M.  Chamness,  daugh- 
ter of  R.  A.  Chamness,  of  Pueblo, 
Col.  The  year  of  his  marriage  he 
moved  to  DuQuoin,  111.,  and  opened 
up  and  for  four  years  conducted  a 
private  surgical  hospital.  In  189S, 
while  atten'"ing  to  the  duties  of  his 
hospital  at  DuQuoin,  he  took  a  post 
graduate  course  in  medicine  at  the 
West  Side  Clinical  School  in  Chi- 
cago. Last  year  he  took  a  post 
graduate  course  at  the  Chicago  Eye, 
Ear.  Nose  and  Throat  Hospital,  cor- 
ner of  Washington  and  Franklin 
streets,  and  removed  to  Marion  on 
December  1st,  1903.  Being  always 
abreast  of  the  times,  he  at  once 
opened  up  an  X-Ray  laboratory  of 
Electro-Therapeutics,  where  he  gives 
special  attention  to  the  disorders  of 
the  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat.  Aside 
from  his  thorough  meiical  training. 
Dr.  Gillis  has  only  had  the  ad- 
vantages of  the  public  school  and  a 
course  at  the  Illinois  Agricultural 
College  at  Irvington,  111.,  neverthe- 
less, as  indicative  of  the  solid  ac- 
quirements of  the  man,  we  mention 
the  following  among  the  honorable 
positions  he  occupies;  American 
Medical  Association:  Illinois  State 
Medical  Association:  Tri-State  Medi- 
cal Society:  Southern  Illinois  Medi- 
cal Society:  Williamson  County  Med- 
ical Society:  St.  Louis  Medical  So- 
ciety: Grand  Medical  Examiner  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men of  Illinois.  He  is  a  Knights 
Templar,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Odd 
Fellow  and  a  member  of  the  A.  O. 
U.  W. 


G.   J.   BAKER,   JR.,   M.    D. 


FRANK   P.   GlLLlS.   M.   D. 


Fifty    years    ago    on    the    fifth    of 
May  Dr.  Gillis  first  saw  the  light  at 


Dr.  Baker  was  born  March  14. 
1870.  in  Grassy  Precinct,  Williamson 
County,  Illinois,  among  the  spurs  of 
the  Ozarks.  He  is  the  son  of  Dr. 
Alonzo  P.  Baker,  and  nephew  of  his 
namesake.  G.  J.  Baker.  Sr.,  M.  D., 
and  Dr.  M.  D.  Baker,  of  Anna.  111. 
He  comes  of  a  family  of  physicians 


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ot  good  rt'imtiition,  and  widel\ 
known  ior  their  probitx  and  pioies- 
sional  skill.  Very  naturally  he  took 
to  "the  healing  art"  as  a  duck  to 
water,  and  his  education  was  intend- 
ed to  prepare  him  for  that  noble  pro- 
fession. After  the  usual  training  at 
our  district  schools,  he  entered  the 
Union  Academy  at  Anna,  HI.,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1S90.  at  the 
age  of  2  0  years.  After  a  year  spent 
at  home  under  the  excellent  instruc- 
tion of  his  father,  he  enterej  Mis- 
souri Medical  College  at  St.  Louis, 
now  known  as  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Washington  University.  He 
spent  three  years  there  and  gradu- 
ated in  1S9  4.  Later  he  took  a  post 
graduate  course  at  the  Polyclinic  ot 
New  York  and  entered  at  once  upon 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Carter- 
ville,  where  he  remained  one  year 
and  then  came  to  Marion,  where  he 
has   been   ever  since. 

In  November,  1900.  he  married 
Miss  Maud  Duncan,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Duncan,  of  Marion.  She 
diei  just  one  year  later  and  in  Octo- 
ber, 1903,  he  took  for  his  second 
wife  Miss  Martha  J.  Aikman,  daugh- 
ter of  W.  .1.  Aikman,  of  Marion.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a 
member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
Church.  He  belongs  to  the  Southern 
Illinois  Medical  Association,  to  the 
Williamson  County  Medical  Associa- 
tion and  to  the  Marion  Physicians' 
Protective   Association. 


DR.    CURTIS    BROWN. 


Like  the  majority  of  our  Ijest. 
most  successful  and  useful  men  of  all 
occupations  in  life.  Dr.  Brown 
sprang  from  the  soil.  His  earliest 
years  were  spent  on  a  farm  near  old 
Bainbridge.  and  his  schooling  was 
picked  up  at  intervals  of  farm  work 
until  he  entered  the  Southern  Illi- 
nois Normal  University  at  Carbon- 
dale.  His  first  entry  into  public  no- 
tice was  October  13,  185  3.  conse- 
quently he  has  had  to  put  up  with 
Dame  Nature's  treatment  and  the 
flouts  and  flings  of  outrageous  for- 
tune for  fifty-one  years,  during 
which  time  he  has  learned  many 
things,  the  principal  of  which  is  not 
to  do  so  again.  Experience  is  a 
good  school-master,  but  occasionally 
charges  an  outrageous  fee.  But 
high  or  low,  it  is  wiser  to  kiss  the 
rod  than   to  break  it. 

Dr.  Brown  entered  the  St.  Louis 
Medical  College  in  1S71,  but 
switched  over  to  the  Missouri  Medi- 
cal College  in  1873,  from  which  he 
took  his  "sheepskin"  in  1874.  He 
first  began  to  keep  people  from  the 
bone-garden  at  Crainville,  as  soon  as 
he  graduated,  and  continued  success- 
fully to  keep  them  out.  or  failing  to 
help,  hide  his  blunders  until  ISSl. 
when  he  took  a  post  graduate  course 
at  Rush  Medical  College  at  Chicago, 
since  when  he  is  supposed  to  be  able 
to  kill  them  more  scientifically.     But 


after  he  finished  his  course  at  Rush 
he  moved,  in  1882,  to  Creal  Springs 
and  continued  his  experiments  so 
satisfactorily  to  his  patients  that 
they  had  patience  with  him  for  eigh- 
teen years — surely  a  very  creditable 
record.  In  March,  1899.  he  stuck 
out  his  shingle  in  the  new  town  of 
Herrin,  where  he  spent  two  years  in 
very  hard  work,  which  he  at  first 
supposed  was  the  least  profitable 
period  of  his  career;  but  he  was  sow- 
ing good  seed,  and  he  can  now  count 
it  as  the  best  portion  of  his  l)\Ksiness 
career. 

In  187  4  the  Doctor  did  the  wisest 
thing  any  man  can  do  since  Adam 
set  the  example — he  took  a  rib.  The 
maiden  name  of  the  fortunate  lady 
was  Louisa  Herrin.  daughter  of  the 
old  pioneer  on  Herrin's  Prairie, 
Oliver  Herrin,  long  since  deceased. 
Four  children  blessed  the  union: 
Clara  B.,  wife  of  D.  S.  Anderson, 
Druggist  of  Creal  Springs;  Bertie  B., 
wife  of  Fred  C.  Culver,  of  Redlands, 
Cal.;  Metta  Tot,  who  die!  at  the  age 
of  12.  and  John  Herrin  Brown,  who 
was  laid  away  at  6.  After  twenty- 
three  years  of  happiness,  they 
reached  the  dregs  of  the  cup,  and  the 
wife  followed  her  little  boy  and  girl 
to  the  Land  of  Shadows  November 
29,  1897.  As  a  proof  of  the  happi- 
ness of  his  wedded  life,  the  Doctor 
did  not  long  endure  "single  wretch- 
edness." but  took  another  partner  in 
the  pei'son  of  Miss  Emma  Parmley. 
of  Rock,  111.,  in   1898. 

The  Doctor  is  a  member  of  the  Wil- 
liamson County  Me'ical  Association, 
the  Southern  Illinois  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  Physicians'  Protective 
Association  of  Marion  and  of  the 
American  Medical  Association.  He 
is  not  a  member  of  any  secret  order, 
nor  yet  of  any  branch  of  the  church, 
but  out  of  business  hours  spends  his 
time  with  wife  and  family,  showing  a 
vigorous,  independent  and  contented 
mind,  which  doubtless  has  had  much 
to  do  with  his  success  in  life. 


DR.    W.    E.    CLARK 

Was  first  introduced  to  the  pul)lic 
in  Saline  County,  111.,  on  May  20, 
1854.  After  the  usual  farm  work 
and  farm  training,  incident  to  "get- 
ting a  start"  there,  he  spent  two 
years  at  Princeton  College.  Ky..  ac- 
quiring a  general  idea  of  science  and 
literature,  and  then  graduated  in 
1876.  He  quit  not  because  he  had 
learned  all  there  was  to  know,  al- 
though there  was  a  good  deal  less  of 
it  to  learn  in  those  days  than  there 
is  now,  but  because  he  wanted  to 
study  medicine.  He  has  never  quit 
studying,  however,  for  to  be  a  good 
"melicine  Sachem"  now-a-davs.  a 
man  must  know^  pretty  much  of 
everything  else  too.  So  after  gradu- 
ating from  Princeton  he  spent  two 
more  years  at  Indiana  Medical  Col- 
lege, Evansville,  Ind.  There  he  was 
under    the    immediate    instruction    of 


Dr.  A.  M.  Owens,  and  graduated  in 
the  winter  of  1878  and  Spring  of 
187  9.  Two  years  later  he  entered 
the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  from 
which  he  left  with  his  sheepskin  in 
the  Spring  of  18  82.  He  then  began 
to  practice  at  Galatia,  in  Saline  Co., 
and  remained  there,  "doping  out  the 
poisons"  for  15  years,  till  1897,  when 
people  quit  being  sick  and  he  took  a 
change  of  venue  to  Union  County, 
Ky.  His  trial  in  the  various  towns 
of  that  belligerant  commonwealth 
lasted  till  1900,  when,  being  anxious 
once  more  to  see  "God's  Country," 
he  came  to  Marion,  stuck  out  his 
shingle,  an  1  with  "malice  afore- 
thought" has  been  "doping  out  the 
pizens"  ever  since. 

On  October  16th,  1875,  while  still 
at  Princeton  College,  he  took  a  help- 
mate in  the  person  of  Miss  Laura 
Ann  Mitchell,  daughter  of  Dr.  T.  S. 
Mitchell,  of  Raleigh,  Saline  County, 
by  whom  he  had  three  children,  one 
son  and  two  daughters.  Claud  S., 
the  eldest;  Maud  M.,  the  wife  of 
John  Boetzar  of  DeKoven.  Ky..  and 
Sadie,  wife  of  Ollie  Wallace,  of  Den- 
son's  Springs,  a  Kentucky  health  re- 
sort. His  wife  died  December  20, 
1879,  and  in  '81  he  married  May  A., 
daughter  of  Dr.  Hiram  Musgrave, 
also  of  Raleigh.  One  child  was  born 
of  this  union.  Miss  Grace  Clark,  now 
keeping  a  dry  goods  store  on  No;th 
Market  St.,  Marion. 

The  Doctor  is  Republican  in  poli- 
tics and  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Church.  He  is  Vice  President  of  the 
Marion  Medical  Protective  Associa- 
tion and  has  upheld  its  honors  and 
did  its  hard  work  with  Dr.  Hartwell, 
its  President,  for  three  years.  He 
belongs  to  the  Williamson  County 
anl  the  Southern  Illinois  Medical 
Associations.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  Escol  Lodge,  No.  182,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
K's.  &  L's.  of  Security.  Order  of  Ben 
Hur  and  the  Red  Men. 


DR.   J.   F.   TIDWELL. 

Dr.  Tidwell  was  born  in  McNary 
County.  Tennessee,  March  30,  1841, 
near  Purdy,  the  county  seat.  He  be- 
gan his  school  days  in  the  public 
schools  near  his  home,  where  he  re- 
mained until  he  was  15  years  old. 
when,  with  his  parents  he  went  to 
Chalk  Bluffs,  on  the  Tennessee  river, 
where  he  resumed  his  studies  and  re- 
tnained  in  this  line  until  he  was  19, 
then  taught  five  months  public  school 
and  five  months  subscription  school. 
In  1859,  '60  and  '61  he  attended 
Vanderbilt  University  at  Nashville. 
The  unsettled  condition  of  affairs 
and  rapid  approach  of  war  closed  his 
studies  for  that  time.  Returning  to 
his  home  at  Chalk  Bluff  he  remained 
until  he  enlisted  in  the  service.  Sun- 
day. April  6,  1862.  he  passed  in  lis- 
tening to  the  roar  of  battle  at  Shiloh. 
five  miles  away.  On  that  eventful 
morning  he  saw  General  Grant  leave 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON  COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


the  Cherry  House,  his  headquarters 
in  Savannah,  Tenn.,  for  the  scene  of 
battle.  The  surroundings  grew  more 
desperate,  and  soon  his  father,  a 
union  man,  was  compelled  to  flee 
for  his  life,  and  for  sixty-three  days 
and  nights  was  concealed  in  the 
woods.  His  son  carried  provisions 
to  him  during  the  time.  September, 
18C2,  the  (ith  Tennessee  Federal 
Cavalry  was  enlisted,  with  Col.  Hurst 
first  commander,  and  Dr.  Eldridge 
Tidwell,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  Major.  In  this  organization 
Dr.  J.  F.  Tidwell  enlisted,  where  he 
served  until  August  11,  1865,  part  of 
the  time  Hospital  Steward,  also  2nd 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  regiment. 
During  his  service  he  was  with  the 
command  in  all  its  campaigns,  escap- 
ing injury  except  a  bayonet  wound, 
received  at  Salem,  Miss.  The  Major 
of  the  regiment  was,  on  account  of 
ill  health,  forced  to  resign  and  re- 
turned home,  immediately  removing 
to  Illinois.  The  Doctor  having  served 
his  time  was  mustered  out  and  came 
to  Williamson  County  August,  1865, 
and  has  practiced  medicine  here  from 
that  time  to  the  present.  While  a 
lad  he  attended  Shilo,  Tenn.,  Bap- 
tist church,  but  for  years  he  has  been 
a  Methodist  and  politically  is  a  Re- 
publican. 


V.  A.  S.   BAKER,  M.   D. 

Baker  &  Baker,   Physicians  and 
Surgeons,    Marion. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  Williamson  County  April  3d, 
1876.  After  a  term  in  Crab  Orchard 
Academy  he  entered  the  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  St.  Louis, 
where  he  took  a  four  years'  course, 
graduating  last  year.  His  wife  was 
Nona  Xeber,  the  daughter  of  B.  N. 
Neber,  now  of  Jackson  County.  Their 
first  chiH  was  Elsie,  who  died  when 
IS  months  old,  then  Sophia,  now  3 
years  old.  and  Alonzo  Newton,  a 
babe  in   its  mother's  arms. 


DR.  C.  L.   WASHBURN 

Was  born  in  Smith  County,  Tenn., 
August  10,  1852.  He  is  a  son  of 
Judge  Jas.  M.  Washburn,  also  a  na- 
tive of  Smith  County,  Tenn.  His 
mother  was  Sarah  M.  Smith,  who 
was  born  in  Middle  Tennessee  in 
1826,  and  died  at  the  home  of  her 
son,  Ben  L.  Washburn,  in  Carter- 
ville.  111.,  November  18,  1S97.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  came  with  his 
parents  to  Marion  in  the  Autumn  of 
1857,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  this  County,  mainly 
in  Marion  and  Carterville.  He  en- 
tered Ewing  College  in  1870  and 
graduated  in  1874.  His  early  life 
was  spent  on  his  father's  farm  near 
Carterville,  but  after  leaving  college 
he  took  up  teaching  and  taught  in 
the  public  schools  for  six  years.  He 
then     studied     medicine,     graduating 


from  Missouri  Medical  College  in 
1882. 

The  Doctor  has  been  married 
twice.  His  first  wife  was  Katie  L. 
Marcy,  to  whom  he  was  united  in 
October,  1856.  She  was  a  native  of 
Livingston  County,  Kentucky,  where 
she  was  born  in  1867.  His  second 
wife  was  Mrs.  Laura  A.  Utley,  to 
whom  he  was  united  June  1st,  1899. 
She  was  born  in  Greenville  January 
4,  1S61.  They  have  one  son,  James 
B.   Washburn. 

In  politics  Mr.  Washburn  is  a 
Democrat  and  is  a  member  of  the 
United  Baptist  Church.  He  is  at 
present  engaged  in  farming,  stock 
raising  and  coal  mining. 


D.   D.   HARTWELL,   M.   D. 


Born  October  7,  1878,  in  William- 
son County,  Illinois.  After  the  usual 
training  in  our  common  schools  he 
attended  the  High  School  at  Creal 
Springs,  and  then  taught  one  term  of 
school  in  Southern  Precinct.  He  en- 
tered the  St.  Louis  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons  in  1897,  from 
which  he  graduated  four  years  later, 
and  entered  at  once  upon  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Marion, 
where  he  has  remained  ever  since. 

Upon  the  organization  of  the 
Physicians'  Protective  Association  of 
Marion.  July  26,  1902.  he  was  elect- 
ed its  Chief  Officer,  and  is  now  serv- 
ing his  second  term.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Southern  Illinois  Med- 
ical Association  and  of  the  Illinois 
State    Medical    Association. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Rita  Drake,  of 
St.  Louis,  to  whom  he  was  united 
April  30,  1903.  One  boy,  Alonzo 
Paul,  born  December  21,  1903,  has 
blessed  their  union.  At  the  late  an- 
nual election  Dr.  Hartwell  was 
chosen  Secretary  of  the  Williamson 
County  Physicians. 


ALONZO   P.   BAKER,   M.   D. 

Was  born  November  8,  1848,  in 
Benton  County,  Tenn.  He  was 
brought  by  his  parents  to  William- 
son County  when  but  2  years  old,  and 
settled  in  Grassy  Precinct  on  the 
summit  of  Black  Ridge,  in  the  Ozark 
mountains.  His  father  was  a  farm- 
er and  he  spent  his  youth  farming  in 
the  summer  and  teaching  in  the  win- 
ter. When  the  war  broke  out  he 
joined  the  army,  and  on  Christmas 
day,  1862,  enlisted  in  the  13th  111. 
Cavalry,  Co.  I.,  Col.  Albert  Erskine 
commanding.  He  saw  hard  service 
through  the  various  campaigns  in 
the  Southwest,  fought  his  way  down 
into  Texas  and  the  Red  River  coun- 
try and  back  through  Arkansas  and 
Missouri,  and  was  mustered  out  at 
Springfield  September  7,  1865. 
Among  the  hard-fought  battles  in 
which  he  shared  was  that  of  Pea 
Ridge,  Benton  Co.,  Ark.  His  part  in 
the   battle,    the   Doctor   claims,    was 


fought  in  detached  squadrons  and 
companies  on  account  of  the  timber 
and  brush  anj  the  nature  of  the 
ground.  The  soldiers  didn't  see  a 
commander  higher  than  a  Captain 
during  the  fight,  but  fought  in  their 
own  way,  whenever  and  wherever 
they  saw  a   "Reb." 

After  the  war  he  went  to  teaching, 
and  in  1873  entered  the  Cincinnati 
Medical  College,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated March  3,  1875,  and  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  his  own 
home.  His  first  marriage  took  place 
April  7,  1869,  to  Miss  Martha  Jane 
Matheny,  by  whom  he  had  four  sons 
and  two  daughters,  all  of  whom  are 
living  except  one  daughter,  who  died 
in  infancy.  His  second  wife  was 
Miss  Lizzie  G.  Day,  to  whom  he  was 
united  September  3,  1875,  and  who 
gave  him  one  daughter.  Miss  Bernice 
Baker. 

His  children  by  his  first  wife  were 
Dr.  G.  J.  Baker,  practicing  medicine 
in  Marion,  Miles  David  Baker,  farm- 
ing. Dr.  V.  A.  S.  Baker,  a  partner 
with  G.  J.  Baker,  his  brother,  in  Ma- 
rion, Elsada,  wife  of  Prof.  Asbury, 
in  charge  of  the  Marion  city  schools, 
and  Marcus  W.  Baker,  in  the  mining 
business  in  Marion. 

The  Doctor  is  a  member  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  Medical  Associa- 
tion and  the  Williamson  County  Med- 
ical Association.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  G.  A.  R.,  and  cast  his  first 
vote  for  General  Grant.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Ma- 
kania  Lodge,  No.  484. 


DR.   H.   D.  XORRIS,  Osteopath 

Is  the  only  member  of  his  profes- 
sion in  Williamson  County,  and  it 
must  be  admitted  is  making  good 
use  of  the  monopoly  he  enjoys.  The 
remedial  system  he  practices  is  now 
becoming  sufficiently  well  known  and 
established  not  to  require  an  ex- 
tended explanation  from  the  Sou- 
venir Book  man.  It  may  be  well  to 
state,  however,  that  while  no  medi- 
cines are  administered  by  the  Osteo- 
paths, it  wouldn't  be  safe  to  bank 
upon  their  ignorance  of  them,  and 
as  to  anatomy,  physiology  and  sur- 
gery, their  system  of  cure  compels 
them  to  be  well  posted  in  these 
branches. 

Dr.  Norris  is  a  young  man  and  a 
young  practitioner,  but  seems  to  be 
meeting  with  encouragement  in  his 
chosen  profession  in  this  field.  He 
is  a  native  of  Monticello,  Piatt  Co., 
111.,  where  he  was  born  December  12, 
1873.  His  parents  were  farmers, 
and  he  was  reared  on  a  farm  and 
educated  in  the  common  schools  un- 
til about  17  years  old,  when  he  en- 
tered Madrid  Normal  School,  at  Ma- 
drid. Nebraska.  He  graduated  in 
1892,  and  then  taught  school  three 
years.  He  became  interested  in 
Osteopathy  about  that  time,  and 
graduated  from  the  Americal  School 


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of  Osteopathy  at  Kiiksville.  Mo.. 
January  2  9,  19  0  3.  under  the  instruc- 
tions of  its  founder,  Dr.  A.  T.  Little. 
He  soon  after  moved  to  Marion  and 
stuck  out  his  shingle,  where  it  still 
remains. 

He  was  married  September  S. 
ISSS,  to  Miss  Maggie  Biesecker,  by 
whom  he  had  two  children,  Helen, 
aged  5,  and  Hazel,  aged  3.  For  his 
second  wife  he  took  Miss  Anna 
Spencer.  the  daughter  of  C.  C. 
Spencer,  of  Connellville,  New  York. 
They  were  married  September  3, 
1903. 


a  Miscellaneous  0 


BOX.    JAMES    M.    WASHBL'iiX. 


Judge  Washburn  comes  of  hardy 
pioneer  stock  in  Smith  County,  ilid- 
dle    Tennessee.  He    was    born    51 

miles  east  of  Nashville.  September 
13th,  1S26.  His  parents  were  farm- 
ers of  simple  and  frugal  habits  and 
pure  lives,  who  bequeathed  the  price- 
less heritage,  together  with  its  usual 
accompaniment  of  a  vigorous  consti- 
tution to  their  children.  The  father, 
Lewis  Washburn,  diel  on  the  last 
hour  of  1S72.  at  the  age  of  75  years 
and  six  months,  while  his  mother 
tarried  a  couple  of  years  longer  and 
died  in  May,  1S74.  Her  maiden 
name  was  Nancy  More.  She  raised 
ten  children,  and  died  aged  79. 
James  was  the  sixth  child,  and  was 
reared  and  educated  in  his  native 
state.  He  taught  school  four  Or  five 
years,  farmed,  sold  goods,  read  law, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  married 
all  before  he  was  2  3  years  old.  From 
this  his  life's  record  can  be  read. 

He  has  been  an  exceedingly  am- 
bitious and  active  man.  full  of  life 
and  energj-.  of  great  endurance,  un- 
wearied diligence  and  iron  will.  He 
always  had  a  dozen,  more  or  less,  dif- 
ferent enterprises  on  hand,  and  so 
good  was  his  management  and  so 
wise  his  plans  that  none  of  them 
rarely  or  ever  miscarried.  He  did 
not  come  to  Marion  till  the  Autumn 
of  1S57.  He  studied  law  with  Hall 
and  Washburn,  an  older  brother, 
from  '44  to  '46,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1845,  was  electel  County  Sur- 
veyor, but  resigned  to  come  to  Ma- 
rion. He  lived  in  Marion  for  ten 
years  (engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law  and  in  the  mercantile  business 
with  Frank  Sparks),  and  after  spend- 
ing a  couple  of  years  on  a  rented 
farm  just  out  of  town,  he  bought  the 
farm  where  Dr.  Ferrill  now  lives, 
near  Carterville,  and  made  it  his 
home  for  2  2  years.  In  IS 62,  while 
living  at  Marion,  he  was  elected  to 
the  lower  house  at  Springfield  and 
served  one  term.  In  1.S69-70  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  con- 
vention   which    framed    our    present 


State  Constitution.  In  the  Fall  of 
1^70  he  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  for  the  5Uth  Senatorial  Dist- 
rict, which  is  composed  of  the  coun- 
ties of  Jefferson,  Franklin,  William- 
son, Jackson,  Randolph  and  Monroe. 
By  a  new  arrangement  coming  in 
with  the  new  constitution  he  drew 
a  two  years'  term,  and  after  its  ex- 
piration was  Assistant  Secretary  of 
the  Senate  for  three  years  and  dur- 
ing the  session  of  1S75.  In  1S76  he 
was  returned  to  the  House  and 
served  another  term  of  two  years. 
From  '72  to  "SO  he  was  also  Master 
in  Chancery  at  Marion,  and  from  '73 
to  '93  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Agriculture,  and  as  such 
was  the  Illinois  Commissioner  for 
f^e  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago 
in  the  latter  year.  In  1SS4  he  had 
'•°en  elected  County  Judge  for  Wil- 
liamson County  and  serve!  four 
years. 

In  1S74,  while  Assistant  Secretary 
of  the  Senate,  in  company  with  his 
son,  William  Smith  Washburn,  Wm. 
T.  Davis  and  Charles  H.  Dennison, 
he  started  the  Egyptian  Press  news- 
paper, and  only  severed  his  connec- 
tion with  it  about  two  years  ago. 
During  that  long  period  of  IS  years, 
with  a  multitude  of  other  matters 
on  hand — financial,  political,  official 
business  and  famil.v — whether  as  co- 
partner, associate  editor  and  man- 
ager or  sole  owner,  manager  and 
editor,  he  acquitted  himself  credit- 
ably as  the  publisher  of  the  principal 
Democratic  organ  of  the  County. 

In  1S9  4  he  rented  it  to  Casey  and 
Watson  and  in  '95  to  Casey  alone, 
when  Casey  bought  a  half  interest 
and  in  190  2  he  sold  out  to  Casey  en- 
tirely. 

Mr.  Washburn  had  the  misfortune 
on  September  15,  1S97,  to  lose  his 
house  and  all  it  contained  by  fire, 
and  the  13th  of  November  following 
his  wife  died.  His  children  being 
all  grown,  these  misfortunes  broke 
up  his  family  relations  and  he  spent 
four  years  in  traveling.  Coming 
back  to  the  town  of  his  boyhood  he 
made  the  acquaintance  of  Miss  Jen- 
nie Turner,  to  whom  he  was  united 
in  marriage  in  Smith  County  Novem- 
ber 3.  1901.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Baptist  church.  His  first  wife's 
name  was  Sarah  M.  Smith,  a  native 
of  Virsinia.  They  were  both  for  47 
years  active  members  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Baptist  church,  an'1  she  died 
in  that  communion.  Their  children 
were  William  Smith  Washburn,  now 
of  Chicaso-  Dr.  C.  L.  Washburn,  a 
nhysician  and  farmer  about  five 
miles  northwest  of  Marion,  and  Ben- 
iamin  L.  Washburn,  residing  in  Car- 
terville. 

The  following  tribute  to  Mr.  Wash- 
burn is  from  the  pen  of  Mark  Erwin. 
the  historian,  and  was  written  in 
1S76.  And  now.  after  the  lapse  of 
twenty-six  years  and  the  commentary 
of  the  events  of  more  than  a  quarter 


of  a  century,  there  seems  to  be  no 
occasion  to  change  the  opinions  then 
expressed. 

"James  M.  Washburn  commenced 
the  practice  of  law  in  this  county 
over  fifteen  years  ago,  and  has  since 
been  a  Democratic  politician  of  con- 
siderable prominence.  During  the 
war  he  was  very  bitter  at  times,  but 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  in 
1S76  to  the  Lower  House.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention in  1869.  He  is  admitted  by 
all  parties  to  be  honest  and  upright 
in  his  daily  work,  and  is  now  the 
leader  of  his  party." 


HON.  GEO.  W.  YOUNG. 


Judge  Geo.  W.  Young,  of  Marion 
Illinois,  was  born  January  f>,  lS4o. 
His  parents  diel  during  his  infancy, 
and  he  was  bound  to  Geo.  W.  Bink- 
le.v,  who  was  a  farmer  living  on  the 
farm  where  the  plat  of  Whiteash  is 
now  located,  four  miles  north  of  Ma- 
rion, Mr.  Binkley  died  when  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  but  four- 
teen years  old.  He  was  then  bound 
by  indenture  to  the  widow,  Mrs. 
JIaria  Binkley,  but  only  lived  with 
her  about  one  year,  when  he  left  his 
native  heath  and  went  South,  stop- 
ping at  Cairo,  remaining  there  a  few 
days:  enlisted  on  a  steamboat,  plying 
between  St.  Louis  and  New  Orleans, 
as  a  deck  sweeper,  afterwards  be- 
came a  cabin  boy  and  Texas  tender. 
This  position  he  occupied  until  the 
Winter  of  1861.  when  he  went  ashore 
at  Columbus,  Kentucky,  and  hired  to 
work  on  a  farm  at  five  dollars  per 
month. 

Before  his  preceptor,  Mr.  Binkley. 
died,  he  had  learned  to  read  and 
write  by  attending  subscription 
schools.  He  was  living  in  Kentucky 
at  the  time  the  War  broke  out,  and 
as  the  storm  of  secession  and  dls- 
utiion  swept  over  Kentucky,  it  be- 
came necessary  for  everybody  to 
takes  sides.  Judge  Young  cast  his 
lot  with  the  cause  of  the  Union,  and 
became  attached  to  the  Union  Army 
in  IS 62.  but  on  account  of  his  age, 
was  not  mustered  into  the  service 
until  July,  1862,  when  he  was  mus- 
tered as  a  Private  in  Co.  "L"  of  the 
8th  Ky.  Cav.,  Col.  James  M.  Shack- 
leford  commanding  the  regiment. 
He  served  in  this  regiment  until  Sep- 
tember, 18  63,  when  he  was  sent  to 
Western  Kentucky  on  a  recruiting 
detail,  where  he  recruited  a  Com- 
pany of  men  in  Graves,  Ballard  and 
Carlisle  Counties,  and  was  mustered 
as  First  Lieutenant  of  Co.  "E,"  30th 
Ky.  Mounted  Inf.  Vol.,  Col.  F.  N. 
Alexander  commanding.  At  the  bat- 
tle of  Saltville.  Virginia,  October  6, 
IS  64.  his  Captain  was  severely 
wounded  and  rendered  unable  for 
duty.  This  placed  Lieutenant  Young 
in  command  of  the  Company,  and 
the  Second  Lieutenant  being  absent 
on    detached    service,      left    him    the 


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SOL'VENIR   OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLNOIS. 


oiilx'  comniissione  i  offifer  of  the 
Company,  which  he  eontiniied  to 
command  until  the  close  of  the  War, 
June,  1S65,  when  he  was  mustered 
out  as  Captain  commanding  the  Com- 
pany, receiving  an  honorable  dis- 
charge, and  settled  all  of  his  ac- 
counts with  the  Government.  He 
came  back  to  Williamson  County  in 
July,  1865,  and  started  to  attend  a 
District  School  at  Spillertown,  kept 
by  Matthew  I.  Wroton,  which  he  at- 
tended two  months,  and  afterwards 
attended  the  following  Fall  and  Win- 
ter six  months.  In  1S67  and  '6S,  he 
attended  the  City  University  at  St. 
Louis,  Mo.  In  1S6S  and  '69,  he  at- 
tended the  Law  Department  of  the 
University  of  Chicago,  after  which 
he  attended  the  Benton  Law  Institute 
conducted  by  the  late  Judge  Andrew 
D.  Duff.  He  opened  up  a  law  office 
in  the  city  of  Marion  for  the  prac- 
tice of  law,  in  partnership  with 
Judge  L.  D.  Hartwell.  in  July,  1S70. 

Ju'ige  Young  was  married  to  Miss 
Martha  A.  Spiller,  daughter  of  Elijah 
N.  Spiller,  September  24.  A.  D.  1S71. 
They  have  three  children  living,  two 
of  whom  are  married,  being  the  wives 
of  Richard  Trevor  and  W.  B. 
Rochester,  two  of  Marion's  most  suc- 
cessful and  prominent  business  men, 
and  Miss  Eva,  who  is  still  single,  and 
assists  her  father  in  his  law  office, 
being  a  very  talented  and  expert 
stenographer. 

Judge  Young  became  interested  in 
politics  a  short  time  after  he  came 
home  from  the  army,  and  at  that 
time  the  Republicans  had  no  party 
organization  in  the  County,  and  the 
returned  soldiers  were  anxious  to 
get  Republicans  on  the  ticket  to  be 
voted  for  to  fill  the  respective  County 
offices  at  the  coming  November  elec- 
tion. On  the  30th  day  of  Septem- 
ber, 1865,  there  was  a  caucus  of 
thirteen  Republicans  met  in  the  drug 
store  of  Isaac  M.  Lewis,  on  the  south 
side  of  the  public  square  in  Marion, 
being  the  place  where  Dr.  Casey's 
building  is  now  located,  and  selected 
candidates  to  run  on  the  Republican 
ticket  for  the  various  offices  to  be 
voted  for  at  the  coming  election. 
This  was  the  first  Republican  caucus 
and  the  first  Republican  ticket  that 
was  ever  selected  as  a  ticket  by  the 
Republicans  of  the  County.  He  was 
a  candidate  for  State's  Attorney  in 
1872,  but  was  fiefeated.  He  was 
elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  Ma- 
rion Precinct  in  1S73;  was  elected 
County  Judge  in  November,  1877, 
which  offi.ce  he  held  for  five  years, 
until  1882.  He  was  next  elected 
State's  Attorney  in  1884;  was  elect- 
ed Circuit  .Judge  in  1888.  In  1879, 
he  was  appointed  Colonel  and  Aid- 
de-Camp  on  the  Staff  of  Governor 
Shelby  M.  Cullora  under  the  military 
code  of  the  State  for  the  2  2nd  Con- 
gressional District;  and  was  after- 
war-^s  re-appointed  on  the  Staff  of 
Governor  John  M.  Hamilton  with 
(he   rank   of   Colonel. 


He  or.ganizcd  throe  Grand  Army 
Posts  in  Williamson  County  in  1SC6; 
has  been  a  continuous  member  of 
this  organization  ever  since.  He  is 
also  Division  Commander  of  the 
Union  Veterans'  Union;  was  candi- 
date for  Congress  before  the  Repub- 
lican Convention  in  1882.  He  be- 
came an  Odd  Fellow  in  July,  1869, 
and  has  been  a  continuous  member  of 
Williamson  Lodge  No.  392  ever 
since;  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  for  thirty- 
two  years;  has  held  various  im- 
portant positions  in  the  Grand  Lodge. 

He  is  now  Senior  Vice  Commander 
of  the  Gran  1  Army  of  the  Republic, 
Department  of  Illinois,  which  is  the 
second    highest    officer   in    the    State. 

At  this  time  he  is  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law,  which  has  been  his 
study  and  field  of  operation  for 
thirty-five  years. 

MISS   EVA    YOUNG. 


Miss  Eva  Young,  daughter  of  Col. 
George  W.  Young,  was  born  and 
raised  in  Marion.  Her  life  has  been 
uneventful,  but  she  has  always 
moved  in  the  very  best  society,  and 
received  her  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  city,  graduating  as 
Salutatorian  in  the  class  of  1896, 
from  the  Marion  High  School.  She 
then  turned  her  attention  to  the 
study  of  stenography  and  typewrit- 
ing, attended  Barnes"  Business  Col- 
lege in  St.  Louis,  and  graduated  with 
the  highest  honors  of  that  institution. 

She  has  instructed  several  pupils 
in  the  art  of  shorthand  and  type- 
writing, and  has  filled  the  position  of 
shorthand  reporter  for  the  Circuit 
Court  for  several  years  past,  and  is 
now  one  of  the  appointed  official 
steno.graphers  for  the  Circuit  and 
County  Courts.  She  has  been  in  the 
law  office  of  her  father  as  an  assist- 
ant for  the  past  six  years.  She  is 
also  a  Notary  Public,  and  has  been 
selected  on  numerous  occasions  by 
the  different  members  of  the  Marion 
Bar,  to  take  depositions  of  witnesses 
in  important  law  suits  pending  be- 
fore  the   Courts. 

She  has  the  reputation  of  being  the 
most  rapid  and  correct  stenographer 
in  this  end  of  the  State.  Her  gen- 
eral knowledge  and  liberal  educa- 
tion, together  with  her  genial  dis- 
position and  pleasant  manners,  make 
her  a  general  favorite  with  the 
Courts  and  attorneys,  and  have  won 
for  her  a  large  circle  of  friends  and 
acquaintances. 


WILLIAM  OSCAR  POTTER. 
Master  in  Chancery. 


of  the  Cral)  Orchard  .Academy,  where 
he  graduated  March  :!,  1892.  He 
read  law  at  Galatia,  111.,  in  the  office 
of  A.  E.  Somers,  and  was  admitted 
to   the   bar    August    29th.    1894. 

He  first  opened  an  office  and  be- 
gan the  practice  of  law  in  Johnson 
City  on  March  13th,  1897,  where  he 
remained  for  five  years.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Master  in  Chance  y-  in  1S91, 
and  reappointed  on  the  2nd  of  Jan- 
uary of  the  present  year.  He  is 
prominent  as  an  Odd  Fellow  and 
was  Grand  Representative  in  1900. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  and  the  nights  of  Pythias, 
having  received  his  first  degree  in 
each 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
has  been  Chairman  of  the  Central 
Committee  through  the  three  suc- 
cessive presidential  campaigns  of 
1S9S,  1900  and  1902. 

June  30,  1897,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Susan  Myrtle 
Spiller,  the  eiarhth  daughter  of  W.  J. 
and  Susan  E.  Spiller,  and  is  the 
father  of  two  boys  and  one  girl. 


HON.   GEORGE  W.   SMITH,   M.  C. 


Was  born  in  Putnam  County,  O., 
August  ISth,  1846.  He  was  raised 
on  a  farm  in  Wayne  County,  Illinois, 
to  which  his  father  removed  in  1850. 
He  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmith- 
ing.  He  attended  the  common 
schools  and  graduated  from  the  lit- 
erary department  of  McKendree  Col- 
lege of  Lebanon,  111.,  in  1868.  He 
first  read  law  in  Fairfield,  the  county 
seat  of  Wayne  Co.,  after  which  he 
entered  the  law  department  of  the 
University  at  Bloomington,  Ind., 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1870. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by, the 
Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  the  same 
year,  since  which  time  he  has  resided 
in  Murphysboro  in  the  active  prac- 
tice of  his  profession.  In  1880  he 
was  the  Republican  elector  for  his 
Con.gressional  district  (then  the 
eighteenth)  and  cast  the  vote  of  the 
district  for  Garfield  and  Arthur.  He 
was  elected  to  the  51st,  52nd,  53rd, 
54th,  56th,  57th,  5Sth  Congresses, 
and  re-elected  to  the  59th,  receiving 
22,527  votes  to  14,668  for  Charles 
L.  Otrict,  democrat;  2,306  for  Chas. 
F.  Krish,  prohibition,  and  1023  for 
Daniel  Boone,  socialist.  He  was 
married  at  Murphysboro,  111.,  on 
December  29.  l.'^Sl.  to  Miss  M.  Alice 
Dailey. 


HON.  O.  H.   BURNETT, 
State  Senator. 


One  of  the  most  successful  and 
promising  young  members  of  the 
Williamson  County  bar  is  a  native  of 
this  County,  where  he  was  born 
February  17,  1871.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Charter  Gradtiating  Class 


Is  a  native  of  Williamson  County, 
Illinois,  where  he  first  saw  the  light 
on  the  seventeenth  day  of  January. 
1S72.  After  the  usual  amount  of 
training  in  our  excellent  public 
schools,  he  graduated  from  the 
Northern  Indiana  State  Normal  Uni- 
versity  and    later   from    old    Yale,    in 


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the  class  of  1899.  He  was  immedi- 
ately admitted  to  the  bar  and  began 
the  practice  of  law  in  his  native 
town    the   same   year. 

In  the  Fall  of  1S99  the  law  part- 
nership of  Burnett  &  Slater  was 
formed  with  Judge  \V.  F.  Slater  as 
senior  counsel,  which  still  continues. 
From  June,  1S92,  to  July,  1S96,  he 
served  as  Cashier  in  the  Marion  State 
and  Savings  Bank.  In  1900  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  by  a  ma- 
jority of  600  votes  in  a  Democratic 
district  with  a  normal  majority  of 
400.  In  1904  he  was  again  a  candi- 
date for  the  State  Senate  and  was 
renominated    by    acclamation. 

His  marriage  to  Miss  Lizzie  Har- 
gon,  of  Canton,  Mississippi,  took 
place  April  16,  IS 95,  of  whom  he 
has  one  child,  a  boy,  John,  now  seven 
years  old.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Missionary  Baptist  Church;  Monitor 
Lodge,  Xo.  236,  Knights  of  Pythias; 
the  Elks,  Xo.  800,  and  the  Modern 
Woodmen. 


HOX.    THOS.    H.    SHERIDAN. 


Thos.  H.  Sheridan  was  born  in 
Pope  County.  Illinois,  on  the  16th 
day  of  December,  1861.  At  the  age 
of  five  he  was  left  fatherless.  His 
father  and  mother  had  come  to  Illi- 
nois from  Boston  in  the  early  fifties, 
and  located  in  Chicago,  where  they 
remained  until  about  18.59,  when 
they  located  in  Pope  County,  about 
six  miles  north  of  Golconda.  His 
father's  name  was  Manus  Sheridan 
and  his  mother's  Jane.  The  160 
acres  of  land  granted  to  his  father 
in  the  fifties  has  never  been  con- 
veyed, but  the  title  still  remains  in 
the  heirs.  The  mother  of  this 
subject  lived  until  1891,  and  unto 
her  is  due  the  credit  of  the  proper 
training  of  this  man, 

With  this  subject  two  sisters  and 
three  brothers  grew  to  maturity,  two 
of  the  brothers  having  been  drowned 
and  one  seeking  his  fortune  in  the 
far  east.  The  two  sisters  still  sur- 
vive, one  being  the  wife  of  William 
King,  a  prosperous  and  well-to-do 
merchant  of  Rosebud,  111.,  and  the 
other  living  with  her. 

Thos.  H.  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Golconda,  and  during  the 
early  years  of  his  life  had  a  most 
desperate  struggle  for  existence,  for 
after  the  drowning  of  his  two  broth- 
ers, 1876,  he  became  the  only  sup- 
port of  his  mother's  family.  He 
worked  in  a  printing  office  and  did 
all  kinds  of  work.  In  the  winter  of 
1879-80  he  taught  his  first  school, 
and  in  a  very  few  years  commanded 
the  best  salary  of  any  teacher  in  the 
county.  For  six  years  he  taught 
school  in  the  county  and  in  1884 
was  elected  County  Superintendent 
of  Schools,  and  was  again  elected  in 
1886,  which  position  he  held  until 
in  1890  he  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  in  the  old  49th  district,  which 


represented  Pope,  Massac,  Hardin, 
Gallatin  and  Saline  Counties,  having 
defeated  in  the  nominating  conven- 
tion Capt.  Wm.  G.  Sloan,  of  Harris- 
burg,  and  Simon  S.  Barger,  of  Eddy- 
ville,  and  in  the  general  election, 
Dr.   John  Blanchard. 

While  in  the  State  Senate  he 
served  on  many  important  commit- 
tees, and  his  record  in  the  3  7th  and 
3Sth  General  Assemblies  is  as  good 
as  the  best. 

In  1SS3  Mr.  Sheridan,  after  two 
years'  study,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  and  from  that  time  until  now  he 
has  been  an  active  practioner  before 
the  courts  of  Southern  Illinois. 
Perhaps  no  lawyer  in  this  part  of 
the  state  of  his  years  has  had  a 
more  extensive  practice  before  the 
courts  than  he,  and  certainly  no 
lawyer  of  his  age  has  met  with  great- 
er success  in  the  higher  courts.  In 
Johnson  County,  where  he  has  lived 
the  past  twelve  years,  he  is  on  one 
side  of  all  important  legal  battles, 
an  1  although  but  recently  he  has 
opened  an  office  in  Marion,  where  he 
spends  half  the  time,  he  is  rapidly 
moving  to  the  front,  as  in  the  term 
of  court  just  closed  in  Williamson 
County  no  lawyer  at  the  bar  was  en- 
gaged in  a  greater  number  of  con- 
tested suits  than   he. 

His  law  practice  is  not  confined  to 
Johnson  and  Williamson  counties, 
but  in  Pope,  Massac,  Union,  Pulaski 
and  in  numerous  other  counties  his 
services  are  in  demand.  He  is  a 
polished  and  earnest  speaker  and 
has  few  equals  as  a  cross-examiner 
of   witnesses. 

In  politics  he  is  always  ready  to 
defend  the  principles  and  policies  of 
his  party,  and  next  to  Blaine  he 
thinks  Roosevelt  is  the  greatest 
American    since    Lincoln. 

Senator  Sheridan  was  married 
November  24,  1891,  to  Miss  Fannie 
Throgmorton,  of  Vienna,  111.,  she 
being  the  only  child  of  Josiah  and 
Abigail  Throgmorton  of  that  city. 
They  have  two  children,  Gail  and 
Joe,  Gail  a  girl  of  eleven  and  Joe  a 
boy  of  nine. 

For  a  number  of  years  our  subject 
has  been  interested  in  real  estate, 
and  now  owns  several  hundred  acres 
of  Johnson  County's  best  farm  lands 
in  and  about  Vienna,  and  is  the  larg- 
est shipper  of  timothy  hay  in  the 
County.  He  is  also  a  breeder  of 
Short  Horn  cattle,  and  takes  great 
pride  in  his  herd  of  red,  white  and 
roans.  While  Marion  does  not  yet 
quite  claim  him  as  a  citizen,  it  is 
quite  probable  if  his  business  con- 
tinues to  grow  that  he  will  soon  be 
one  of  us.  He  is  now  an  active  mem- 
ber in  the  B.  P.  O.  of  Elks,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America. 

He  is  not  a  member  of  any  church, 
but  regularly  attends  where  he 
thinks  he  will  hear  a  good  sermon. 
As   a    speaker   and    lecturer   his   ser- 


vices are  in  demand.  It  is  said  of 
him  in  his  home  county  that  he  has 
not  one  bad  habit  and  that  he  never 
swore  an  oath  in  his  life,  nor  does 
he  chew  or  smoke  tobacco  nor  drink 
intoxicants. 


EDWARD  EVERETT   DEXISOX 
Attorney    at    Law. 


Was  born  at  Marlon,  Illinois, 
August  28th,  1874.  He  received  his 
early  schooling  in  the  public  schools 
of  Marion  and  then  spent  five  years 
in  Baylor  University  at  Waco,  Tex., 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1895 
with  two  degrees,  those  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts  and  Bachelor  of  Literature. 
A  year  later  he  took  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts  at  Yale  University 
with  the  class  of  1S96,  and  received 
at  graduation  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
appointment  by  the  faculty.  He 
then  entered  business  life  and  spent 
a  year  as  cashier  of  the  old  bank  of 
Marion. 

Prefering  the  law  to  a  business 
career,  he  entered  Columbian  Law 
School  in  Washington  D.  C,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1899  with 
two  degrees.  L.  L.  B.  and  L.  L,  M. 
The  following  October  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  and  in  June,  1900, 
formed  a  partnership  with  W.  W. 
Duncan,  and  at  once  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  his 
native  town.  This  relation  contin- 
ued until  the  election  of  Judge  Dun- 
can to  the  bench  of  the  Circuit 
Court  in  June  of  1903.  when  it  was 
dissolved  and  Mr.  Denison  has  since 
practiced    alone. 

While  attending  Columbian  Law 
School  Mr.  Denison  became  iienti- 
fied  with  the  Phi  Dilta  Phi  Legal 
Fraternity,  of  which  he  has  since 
become  Vice  President  of  the  X''a- 
tional  Council.  This  Fraternity  now 
embraces  the  entire  territory  of  the 
T'nited    States    and     Canada.  Mr. 

Denison  is  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  belonging  to  Monitor 
Lodge  No.  236.  also  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Education  and 
of  the  Missionary   Baptist   Church. 


HOX.   LORENZO  D.   HARTWELL, 
States  Attorney. 


Born  and  educated  in  Williamson 
County,  Mr.  Hartwell  has  been  active 
in  its  affairs  for  nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury. He  was  a  son  of  L.  D.  Hart- 
well,  who  emigrated  from  Virginia 
with  his  family  in  1839.  and  settled 
five  miles  north  of  Marion,  where 
he  died  in  1865.  He  raised  eight 
boys  and  four  girls,  of  whom  six 
boys  served  in  the  Union  Army  in 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  and  four 
sons  and  three  daughters  still  sur- 
vive. At  the  very  beginning  of  the 
war  in  1861,  Lorenzo  was  one  of  the 
family  of  six  to  go  to  the  front  and 
enlisted  in  Company  F,  31st  111.  Vol. 
Inf.      He  served  with  distinction  for 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


four  years,  and  until  the  close  of  the 
war,  when  he  was  mustered  out  and 
again  entered  public  school.  He 
studied  law  under  Judge  Duff,  at 
Benton,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1869,  and  has  been  very  successful 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  ever 
since. 

In  1SG6  he  entered  politics  and 
first  served  eight  years  as  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  This  was  followed  by 
four  years  as  City  Attorney,  then 
Master  in  Chancery  of  Williamson 
County  two  years.  County  Judge 
eight  years,  and  is  now  serving  a 
term  of  four  years  as  States  Attorney. 
During  this  time  he  has  also  served 
two  years  as  Postmaster  of  Marion. 
During  his  present  terra  of  States 
Attorney  he  has  broken  the  record 
for  efficiency  as  a  public  officer  by 
turning  in  to  the  public  school  fund 
and  county  treasury  two  thousnad 
two  hundred  dollars,  besides  paying 
the  expenses  of  his  office:  has  sent 
42  criminals  to  the  penitentiary';  10 
to  the  reform  school  and  2  to  the 
gallows. 

Mr.  Hartwell  has  been  married 
twice.  His  first  marriage  took  place 
April  30,  1871,  by  which  he  had 
one  son,  Edward  E.  Hartwell.  His 
second  marriage  took  place  August 
IS,  1S7S,  to  Miss  Cora  E.  Simmons, 
of  whom  he  has  had  six  children, 
three  surviving.  His  eldest  son  is 
the  present  City  Attorney,  D.  L. 
Hartwell.  He  is  an  active  member 
and  trustee  in  Dr.  Thompson's 
church,  the  Methodist  Episcopal,  and 
also  active  in  Fraternal  work,  being 
a  member  of  Fellowship  Lodge,  No. 
89.  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  at  Marion;  char- 
ter member  of  Monitor  Lodge,  No. 
2  3  6,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  McKin- 
ley  Rgt.,  No.  U.  V.  V. 


City  Attorney,  which  office  he  still 
holds.  He  is  a  member  of  Monitor 
Lodge  No.  236,  K.  of  P.,  and  of  the 
B.  &  P.  O.  of  Elks,  No.  ,SiiO. 


HON.    W.    F.    SLATER, 
Ex-County   Judge. 


D.    T.    HARTWELL, 

City   Attorney. 


Was  born  in  Marion,  111.,  July  8, 
1879,  He  graduated  from  the  High 
School  in  the  class  of  1S96,  and  af- 
terwards attended  the  Northern  Ind- 
iana Normal  University  at  Val- 
paraiso for  the  years  1896  and  '97. 
After  leaving  school  he  studied  law 
under  his  father.  L.  D.  Hartwell.  for 
two  years,  meanwhile  establishing 
an  insurance  agency,  which  he  is  still 
running.  In  December,  1S99,  he 
took  the  Federal  examination  at  St. 
Louis  for  a  first-class  clerkship  and 
secured  the  best  record  made  at  that 
time.  Soon  after  he  received  an  ap- 
pointment in  the  Census  Bureau  at 
Washington  D.  C.  by  the  Hon.  Geo. 
W.  Smith.  While  there  he  attended 
the  Columbian  University  Law 
School  and  graduated  in  1902.  the 
fifth  in  a  class  of  112.  The  follow- 
ing October  he  took  the  Illinois  State 
Bar  examination,  and  out  of  four- 
teen applicants  in  Southern  Illinois 
was  the  only  one  who  passed.  In 
April  of  the  last  year  he  was  elected 


Judge  Slater  is  a  native  product  of 
Williamson  County,  Illinois,  and  if 
the  complete  mastery  over  unusual 
difficulties  and  apparently  insur- 
mountable obstacles  in  his  youth  en- 
titles a  man  to  the  appellation  of 
"self-made,"  this  belongs  par  excel- 
lence to  the  Judge.  Born  in  Lake 
Creek  Precinct  March  24,  1869,  he 
was  left  an  orphan  when  but  three 
months  old.  Under  the  fostering 
care  of  his  widowed  mother  he  grew 
to  manhood  on  the  farm  and  fol- 
lowed the  plow  till  26  years  old.  He 
then,  October  2nd,  189.5,  chose  his 
life's  partner  in  the  person  of  Miss 
Zulu  Reid,  one  of  the  talented  daugh- 
ters of  William  Reid,  of  Spillertown. 
The  fruit  of  this  union  has  been  two 
sons  and  one  daughter,  all  of  whom 
are  living. 

Five  years  before  his  marriage  he 
began  the  study  of  law  with  his 
hand  upon  the  plow.  Poverty  and 
grinding  toil  had  prevented  his  se- 
curing more  than  the  bare  rudiments 
of  learning  in  our  common  schools, 
and  he  never  had  the  advantage  of 
a  single  term  at  High  School  or 
Academy,  much  less  the  finish  of  a 
collegiate  course.  Yet  such  was  his 
thirst  for  knowledge  and  strength  of 
will  that  he  mastered  all  difficulties 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1892. 
In  March.  1898,  he  was  appointed 
County  Judge  by  Governor  Tanner, 
to  fill  an  unexpired  term,  and  at  the 
following  election  in  November  was 
elected  to  succeed  himself  for  a  full 
term  of  four  years. 

In  1899  was  formed  the  successful 
law  partnership  of  Burnett  and  Sla- 
ter, which  still  remains.  He  is  an 
enthusiastic  Republican  in  politics, 
and  is  chairman  of  the  50th  District 
Republican  Senatorial  Committee. 

Judge  Slater  is  a  man  of  the  peo- 
ple, has  ambition  and  an  immense 
store  of  reserved  power,  both  mental- 
ly and  physically,  and  a  brilliant  fu- 
ture  awaits   him. 


Georgia,  July  21,  1,S64.  and  was  dis- 
charged from  the  army  March  6 
1S65. 

On  his  return  to  Williamson  Co. 
he  read  law  and  was  licensed  to 
practice  December  19,  1866,  having 
been  a  continuous  member  of  the 
bar  thirty-seven  years  and  a  resident 
of  Marion  except  a  few  years  on  a 
farm.  He  died  Tuesday,  September 
8,  190  3,  in  this  city,  and  memorial 
services  were  held  by  the  members 
of  the  Marion  bar,  in  his  honor,  at 
the  courthouse  Tuesday,  October  13, 
1903.  Memorial  Committee — Geo. 
W.  Young,  Ed.  M.  Spiller,  W.  F. 
Slater,  J.  C.   B.  Smith 


HON.   J.    H.   BURNETT 


Was  born  in  Williamson  County 
September  29,  1844.  He  was  raised 
to  farm  life  and  his  early  education 
was  such  as  farmer  boys  usually  ob- 
tain. He  is  Republican  and  active  in 
politics  all  his  life.  In  1SS6  the 
voters  of  Williamson  County  made 
him  Sheriff.  In  1895  he  was  elected 
Mayor  of  Marion,  serving  one  term. 
He  has  served  on  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation several  times,  and  on  the  1st 
of  May,  1891,  was  appointed  by 
President  McKinley  Special  Agent  of 
Internal  Revenue,  with  headquarters 
at  St.  Louis,  and  is  still  discharging 
the  duties  of  that  office.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
Church  of  Marion. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Mary  A.  Davis, 
who  was  also  a  native  of  this  County. 
Eight  children  were  born  of  this 
union,  of  whom  all  are  living  but 
one.  In  the  order  of  their  birth  they 
are:  Mrs.  Delia  Capron,  Marion; 
Mrs.  Eliza  Spiller,  Marion;  O.  H. 
Burnett.  State  Senator;  one  daugh- 
ter. Minnie,  died  October  5.  1876; 
Mrs.  Lillian  Haeberle.  Colorado 
Springs;  Mrs.  Amy  Mcintosh,  Ma- 
rion; Miss  Estella  Burnett,  Miss 
Bertha    Burnett. 


HON.  W.  H.  WARDER, 

Attorney    at    Law — Office    in    White 
Block.    South    Side    Square. 


HON.   JOSEPH  W.  HARTWELL 


Was  born  in  Williamson  County. 
Illinois,  March  12,  18  39.  He  was 
reared  on  a  farm  and  received  the 
rudiments  of  a  common  school  edu- 
cation on  the  subscription  plan,  com- 
mon at  that  time.  He  was  marriel 
November  5th,  185S,  and  settled  on 
a  small  piece  of  land  in  Lake  Creek 
precinct,  about  six  miles  northeast  of 
Marion,  where  he  resided  until  Aug- 
ust 10,  1862,  when  he  enlisted  in  the 
Union  Army  as  private  in  Co.  F,  31st 
Regiment  111.  "Vol.  Inf.  He  lost  his 
left  arm  at  the  battle  before  Atlanta, 


Hon.  W.  H.  Warder  was  born  in 
Johnson  County,  this  state,  and  came 
to  Marion  in  1880.  He  has  been  for 
2  3  years  an  active  and  successful 
practitioner  at  the  bar  of  this  and 
other  Southern  Illinois  counties. 
Politically  a  Democrat,  he  served  in 
the  Forty-First  and  Forty-Second 
General  Assemblies  as  Representa- 
tive from  this  district,  with  distinc- 
tion. He  is  public  spirited  and  a 
recognized  factor  in  the  development 
of  Marion  and  Williamson  county 
interests. 


ED.    M.    SPILLER. 
Attorney  at  Law. 


Ed.  M.  Spiller  was  born  September 
28,     1865,    at     Carbondale,     Jackson 


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County,  Illinois.  Aftei-  a  thorough 
training  in  the  Marion  schools,  he 
took  a  scientific  course  at  the  North- 
ern Indiana  Normal  School  and 
graduated  at  Valparaiso  in  ISSS, 
with  the  Degree  of  Bachelor  of  Sci- 
ence. After  teaching  one  term  of 
school  at  Carterville,  he  began  the 
study  of  law  under  Judge  Duncan 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Feb- 
ruary, 11S92.  He  enterei  at  once  in- 
to a  law  partnership  with  R.  R. 
Fowler,  and  began  at  once  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession.  After  three 
years  of  lucrative  practice,  this  firm 
was  dissolved  and  that  of  Hartwell 
&  Spiller  formed  in  its  stead.  This 
in  turn  lasted  three  years  and  was 
succeeded  by  that  of  Spiller  and 
White,  which  still  continues.  Either 
as  associate  or  principal,  Mr.  Spiller 
has  been  called  into  some  of  the 
most  important  criminal  cases  of  the 
county,  among  which  are  the  Riot 
Cases  at  Carterville,  which  were 
taken  to  Johnson  County  on  a  change 
of  venue  and  consumed  three  months 
in  the  trial.  Some  of  the  most  bril- 
liant attorneys  of  the  state  were  in 
this  case  on  one  side  or  the  other. 
The  people  vs.  Joseph  McCabe,  the 
Marshal  of  Herrin:  the  people  vs. 
Roy  McCawan:  and  the  people  vs. 
Ed  Clements  and  Ivery  Williams,  are 
some  of  the  cases  of  importance  in 
which  he  has  had  a  part.  Mr.  Spiller 
was  married  October  22,  1S90,  to 
Miss  Nannie  A.  Edwards,  the  daugh- 
ter of  C.  M.  Edwards,  of  Marion.  He 
is  a  member  of  Monitor  Lodge  236 
K.  of  P.,  and  Marion  Camp  Modern 
Woodmen.  In  politics  Mr.  Spiller  is 
a  Democrat,  but  although  defeated 
in  the  race  for  States  Attorney  in 
1S92,  he  ran  115  votes  ahead  of  his 
ticket  in  the  county.  He  has  held 
the  office  of  City  Attorney  two 
terms. 


tion  of  his  marriage,  which  took 
place  on  November  2  3,  1S97,  to  Miss 
Ada  Barhani,  the  daughter  of  Jos. 
Barham,  of  Marion.  One  child,  Vir- 
ginia, marks  the  fruit  of  their  union. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Marion  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association;  in  busi- 
ness the  resident  agent  for  the  Ru- 
dolph Strecher  Brewing  Association, 
and  in  Fraternal  matters  a  member 
of  the  Elks  and  of  the   K.   P's. 


GEORGE  C.  CAMPBELL, 
City  Clerk. 

Was  born,  reared  and  educated  in 
Williamson  County.  He  has  never 
had  any  interests,  personal,  business 
or  political,  outside  of  his  county, 
and  may  be  considered  a  typical  Wil- 
liamson County  man.  He  first  saw 
the  light  in  Marion  on  August  12, 
1868,  but  his  father,  Geo.  C.  Camp- 
bell, dying  in  1872,  he  was  left  an 
orphan  at  the  age  of  six  years,  but 
with  a  good  patrimony  to  back  him 
up.  His  schooling  was  of  the  sort 
obtainable  at  our  common  schools, 
supplemented  with  a  course  at  the 
Southern  Illinois  Normal  at  Carbon- 
dale,    111. 

Like  the  most  of  our  ambitious 
and  capable  men  he  has  had  a  hand 
in  politics,  and  although  a  Demo- 
crat in  a  Republican  County,  has 
been  elected  City  Clerk  for  four  suc- 
cessive terms,  viz:  in  1897,  1899, 
1901  and  again  in  1903.  A  glance 
at  his  portrait   will   settle   the  ques- 


JOHN    W.    PEEBLES, 
Attorney   at   Law. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  na- 
tive of  Williamson  County,  born  and 
reared  on  a  farm  about  five  miles 
southeast  of  Marion,  He  got  his 
first  introduction  to  this  mundane 
sphere  December  9,  1849.  His 
father  was  Oliver  P.  Peebles,  who 
served  in  the  81st  111.  Vol.  Inf.,  Co. 
H.  but  died  of  disease  at  Memphis. 
Tenn.  in  February,  1863.  He  was 
a  native  of  Kentucky.  His  wife  was 
a  Tennesseean,  one  of  a  family  of 
2  4  children  by  one  father  but  two 
mothers,  having  12  children  each. 
She  died  in  Marion  in  September, 
1890,  having  had  seven  children,  of 
whom  Judge  Peebles  was  the  2nd. 
When  about  18  years  old  he  began 
to  teach  school,  after  graduating 
from  the  High  School  at  Liberty, 
111.,  in  1868,  and  taught  continuous- 
ly in  Williamson  County  for  nine 
terms. 

He  then  went  into  the  drug  busi- 
ness with  his  brother,  Robert  F. 
Peebles,  who  is  still  doping  out  the 
"pizens"  at  the  old  stand  in  Crab 
.  Orchard.  After  eight  years'  experi- 
ence in  the  drug  business  he  con- 
cluded to  enter  the  ranks  of  the  le- 
gal profession,  and  took  a  course  in 
the  Law  Department  of  the  State 
University  at  Columbia,  Missouri, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  April, 
1877.  He  returned  at  once  to  Ma- 
rion and  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  which  he  has  fol- 
lowed with  unvarying  success  till 
the  present  time.  In  1880  he  re- 
ceived the  appointment  by  President 
James  A.  Garfield  of  Supervisor  of 
the  tenth  Census  for  the  8th  district 
of  Illinois,  comprising  2  8  counties  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  state.  His 
confirmation  was  secured  in  the  face 
of  great  competition,  and  he  justified 
the  selection  by  closing  his  labor  far 
in  advance  of  his  associates  in  other 
districts   of  the   State. 

In  1880  he  was  Republican  candi- 
date for  States  Attorney,  but  was  de- 
feated by  his  Democratic  opponent 
by  100  votes.  In  1882  he  was  de- 
feated by  Judge  Washburn  for  Coun- 
ty Judge  by  17  votes.  In  1892  he 
ran  again  for  States  Attorney  and 
was  successful,  and  served  his  full 
term  of  four  years. 

During  the  war  with  Spain  he 
made  up  Co.  A,  in  Jos.  P.  Roberts* 
regiment,  the   11th,  and  was  elected 


its  captain,  but  the  war  closed  so 
suddenly  that  his  regiment  was 
never  called   out. 

His  marriage  took  place  Septem- 
ber 17th,  1871,  to  Miss  Olive  Jen- 
kins, a  native  of  Virginia,  who  came 
with  her  parents  to  Marion  in  1862. 
She  gave  birth  to  five  children  and 
died  December  1,  1904.  Four  of  her 
children  are  living.  They  are;  Anna, 
wife  of  ZoUa  Dodd,  the  American  Ex- 
press agent  in  Marion;  Fred,  who  is 
running  a  rural  route  out  of  Marion 
in  the  Free  Delivery  Service;  Frank, 
who  is  a  eager  at  No.  2  Coal  mine, 
and  Kate,  the  wife  of  Moody  R.  Tid- 
well,  the  cashier  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  at  Miama,  Indian  Terri- 
tory. Mr.  Peebles  has  six  grandchil- 
dren. 

Mr.  Peebles  has  always  been  ac- 
tive in  the  ranks  of  Odd  Fellowship. 
He  first  united  with  the  order  here, 
but  in  18  73  was  transferred  by  card 
to  Crab  Orchard  Lolge,  No.  4  7.5,  of 
which  he  was  a  charter  member  and 
with  which  he  still  affiliates.  He 
held  every  elective  office  in  its  gift 
and  was  chosen  to  represent  the 
Grand  Lodge  at  its  gathering  at 
Peoria  in  1875,  and  again  at  the 
meeting  at  Jacksonville,  in  1876. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  M.  E. 
church. 


GEORGE   W.    PILLOW, 
Attorney  at  Law. 


George  W.  Pillow  began  life  at 
Metropolis,  Massac  Co.,  111.,  May  15, 
185  0.  He  was  the  son  of  Capt. 
Parker  B.  Pillow,  of  Columbia, 
Tenn.,  who  died  about  March,  1883, 
at  Shawneetown,  to  which  place  he 
moved  in  1852.  The  mother  was  a 
native  of  this  state  and  is  still  living 
at  Shawneetown.  As  soon  as  he  was 
old  enough  Mr.  Pillow  was  appren- 
ticed to  Karcher  and  Scandland,  car- 
penters and  undertakers,  where  he 
served  for  three  years.  But  having 
ambition,  he  took  up  the  study  of 
the  law  and  prosecuted  it  while 
working  at  the  bench  and  at  night. 
He  was  persistent  and  diligent  under 
the  most  adverse  circumstances,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  August, 
1882.  He  had  chosen  his  life's 
partner  eleven  years  before,  and 
with  the  care  of  a  wife  and  an  in- 
creasing family  on  his  hanis.  con- 
tinued steadfast  in  the  pursuit  of  his 
ideal,    until    he   won. 

His  first  wife's  name  was  Miss  M. 
E.  Slater,  to  whom  he  was  united  at 
Metropolis,  December  15,  1871.  Sev- 
en children  came  of  this  union,  six 
of  whom  survive.  Their  names  are 
Eugene  R.,  Gordon,  Eva,  C.  J..  Wi- 
nona and  Earl.  He  had  the  misfor- 
tune to  lose  his  wife  in  the  Spring  of 
1892,  and  two  years  later,  Septem- 
ber 16,  1894,  was  married  to  Miss 
Mary  A.   Belt. 

Mr.  Pillow  was  always  a  Republi- 
can in  politics  and  active  and  influen- 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLNOIS. 


tial  in  his  field.  He  was  Republican 
candidate  for  Congress  in  1890  in 
the  old  district,  formerly  represent- 
ed by  Richard  Townsend.  He  was 
defeated  by  J.  R.  Williams,  the  Dem- 
ocratic candidate  by  3,100  majority, 
in  a  district  with  a  normal  majority 
of  6,0  00,  running  away  ahead  of  his 
ticket  on  his  own  personal  popular- 
ity. He  continued  the  practice  of 
law  in  Gallatin  and  the  adjoining 
counties  until  January,  1901,  when 
he  moved  to  Marion.  In  1904  he 
bought  a  house  on  West  Main  street 
and  moved  into  it.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  of  the 
M.   E.   Church. 


llonitor  Lodge,  130.  and  a  member 
of  A.  C.  .Marsh  Lodge,  No.  -19  0,  at 
Frankfort.  Illinois,  1.  O.  O.  F. 


THOMAS   A.    SLN'KS, 
Court    Reporter. 


The  record  of  Mr.  Sinks  discloses 
a  life  almost  ideal  in  its  peaceful 
uniformity  and  romantic  sameness. 
He  has  passed  through  few  exciting 
or  eventful  days,  but  choosing  a  pro- 
fession in  early  life  he  has  cheer- 
full>  and  persistantly  followed  It 
with  satisfactory  results  up  to  the 
present  hour.  The  versatility  of 
Americans  leads  them  from  early  life 
to  try  many  avocations,  now  this, 
now  that,  and  it  is  often  late  in  life 
that  they  find  their  level  and  settle 
down  to  some  one  pursuit.  And 
often  even  then  the  round  peg  gets 
into  the  square  hole  and  the  square 
peg  into  the  round  hole.  But  Mr. 
Sinks  very  early  made  the  proper 
selection  and  shows  by  a  successful 
career  that  the  right  man  got  into 
the  right  place.  He  was  born  Aug- 
ust 27,  1S59,  in  Spring  Garden,  Jef- 
ferson County,  Illinois.  He  was 
reared  on  his  father's  farm,  edu- 
cated in  the  public  school  and  for 
eight  years  taught  in  Franklin  and 
Williamson  counties.  Constant  ex- 
perience shows  that  teaching  is  the 
very  best  possible  training  for  a 
business  life  in  any  department,  and 
Mr.  Sinks  taught  just  long  enough 
to  thoroughly  prepare  him  for  the 
career  of  court  reporter  which  he 
has  so  long  and  so  successfully  fol- 
lowed. After  closing  his  last  school, 
he  took  a  course  of  training  in  the 
Shorthand  and  Typewriting  Depart- 
ment of  the  Barnes  Business  College 
of  St.  Louis.  After  his  graduation 
he  was  appointed  to  his  present  po- 
sition first  by  Judge  Joseph  P.  Rob- 
arts,  who  died  in  1903.  His  second 
appointment  wa';  by  Judge  Harrah 
and  then  again  by  Judge  W.  W.  Dun- 
can, making  twelve  years  of  contin- 
uous service. 

He  was  married  June  2  0,  1S97, 
to  Sarah  M.  Sadler,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam C.  Sadler,  of  Frankfort,  Illi- 
nois. On  July  2  3,  190  2,  his  wife 
died,  leaving  him  one  son  who  had 
been  named  after  Judge  Roberts. 
His  second  marriage  took  place  June 
7,  1904.  to  Miss  Etta  Henson,  of 
Frankfort,   111.        He   is   a   K.   of   P., 


HON.    RUFUS    NEELEY, 
County  Judge. 

Rufus  Neeley  was  born  April  25, 
1864,  in  this  county,  and  has  always 
made  it  his  home.  He  went  to  the 
public  school  in  the  winters  and 
worked  on  a  farm  in  the  summers 
tor  ten  years.  He  is  a  son  of  John 
S.  Neeley,  who  was  a  Virginian  by 
birth,  .but  who  drifted  to  the  west, 
and  served  for  three  years  in  the 
regular  army.  He  was  all  through 
the  Black  Hawk  War  and  drew  a 
pension  for  his  services  as  long  as  he 
lived.  He  settled  on  a  farm  in  Wil- 
liamson county  in  1S60,  where  he 
died.  On  account  of  his  poverty, 
Rufus  Neeley  was  compelled  to  pur- 
sue his  law  studies  at  home.  This  he 
did  to  so  good  advantage  that  in 
October,  1900,  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar.  He  served  as  deputy  clerk 
of  the  Circuit  court  under  W.  B. 
Pulley  for  two  years,  and  was  then 
elected  to  his  present  office.  He  was 
married  March  20,  188  9,  to  Miss 
Emma  A.  Harris,  daughter  of  Dr. 
James  A.  Harris,  a  physician  of  Sa- 
line county,  by  whom  he  has  had 
three  boys  and  one  girl.  He  is  a 
member  of  Fellowship  Lodge  No. 
89,  A.   L.  and  A.   M. 


H.    S.    HARRIS, 
Sheriff   of   Williamson   County. 


Sheriff  Harris  is  a  native  of  Cheat- 
ham County,  Tennessee,  where  he 
was  born  August  3rd,  184  7.  He 
moved  to  Williamson  County  in 
1854,  with  his  parents  and  settled 
near  Herrin,  where  be  lived  nearly 
3  3  years.  His  education  was  of  the 
sort  obtainable  at  the  public  schools, 
and  he  pursued  his  studies  mostly 
at  old  Spillertown. 

On  October  2  5,  1868,  when  but  21 
years  old.  he  married  Miss  Sarilia 
Hays,  the  daughter  of  Henry  Hays, 
of  old  Franklin.  Of  this  union  three 
children  were  born,  two  sons  and 
one  daughter.  The  youngest  son, 
Charles,  died  at  the  age  of  22,  and 
John  still  lives  on  the  old  home- 
stead. Delia  became  the  wife  of 
James  Parks,  and  they  reside  in 
Oklahoma. 

Mr.  Karris  was  elected  County 
Treasurer  in  1898,  and  after  serv- 
ing four  years,  was  elected  Sheriff  in 
1902-.  This  is  his  first  term  as  Sher- 
iff, but  he  has  clearly  proven  that  a 
man  can  be  taken  from  the  plow  and 
fill  an  important  public  office  with 
efficiency  and  credit.  During  his 
administration  to  date  he  has  put 
150  men  under  arrest  and  in  jail, 
with  not  an  escape  or  jail  delivery 
to  record.  He  has  hung  two  mur- 
derers, Jerry  Graves  and  Calvin 
Price,  in  July,  1902,  for  the  murder 


of  Miss  Nellie  Reicheldeffer.  The 
earnings  of  his  office  for  the  first 
year  of  his  term  was  a  little  over 
$6000.  Notwithstanding  the  stern 
duties  he  is  sometimes  called  upon 
to  perform,  he  is  a  most  genial  gen- 
tleman, a  pleasant  companion  and  a 
sincere  Christian.  For  eighteen 
years  he  has  been  a  member  ot  the 
Christian  Church  at  Lake  Creek 
Township. 


ARTHUR   G.   DAVIS, 
Deputy   Clerk   of   Circuit   Court. 


This  most  efficient  and  popular  of- 
ficer, was  born  near  Crab  Orchard 
October  9,  1877.  The  year  after  his 
father,  Lewis  Davis,  died  and  the 
boy  was  reared  by  his  mother  and 
step-father,  William  R.  Henshaw. 
He  received  kind  and  careful  train- 
ing on  a  farm  until  about  17  years 
old.  when  he  taught  one  term  of 
school  near  Stone  Fort.  Mr.  Hen- 
shaw having  sold  his  farms  and  en- 
gaged in  merchandising  at  Harris- 
burg,  his  son  entered  his  employ  as 
Clerk. 

After  this  he  attended  the  Harris- 
burg  High  School,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1898.  He  then  entered 
Milton  College  at  Milton,  Rock  Co., 
Wisconsin,  and  remained  for  four 
years,  paying  his  own  expenses  by 
laboring  at  odd  times  and  acting  as 
watchman  of  evenings.  But  his 
strength  and  his  money  gave  out 
before  he  got  through  college,  and 
he  never  gra-^uated.  On  returning 
to  Williamson  County,  he  at  once 
took  the  position  of  Principal  of  the 
Carterville  High  School  for  one  term 
and  then  one  term  as  Principal  of 
the  Herrin  High  School,  when  he  re- 
ceived  his   present   appointment. 

JAMES   ARTHUR   CAMPBELL. 
Street   Commissioner. 


Was  born  in  the  country,  three 
miles  east  of  Marion,  December  29, 
1857.  His  father  was  O.  G.  Camp- 
bell, and  raised  his  family  on  his 
farm,  and  until  2  3  years  old  Arthur 
worked  on  the  farm  in  the  summer 
and  patched  up  a  little  education  at 
the  public  schools  in  the  winder. 
When  23  he  and  his  brother  Theo- 
dore, now  dead,  opened  up  a  General 
Merchandise  stock  of  goods  at  Ma- 
rion, and  for  ten  years  f  olio  we  1  mer- 
chandising, the  livery  business  and 
dealing  in  live  stock.  After  closing 
out  his  store  and  liverv,  he  handled 
stock  exclusively  for  about  ei.ght 
years,  and  then  went  to  work  for  the 
city.  He  was  at  first  overseer  of  the 
streets,  alleys,  sidewalks,  etc..  and 
then  became  Street  Commissioner, 
and  is  still  serving  the  cicy  in  that 
capacity.  About  1884  he  was  a 
tnember  of  the  old  board  of  school 
directors,  and  for  two  terns  its  pres- 
ident. In  1894  he  served  as  Alder- 
man  one  term.        He   has  been  for 


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many  years  a  member  of  the  South 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  ami  a 
trustee  and  on  the  building  commit- 
tee that  erected  the  present  church 
building. 

His  marriage  to  Miss  Samautha 
Scurlock,  daughter  of  A.  B.  Scurlock, 
of  Marion,  took  place  July  7th,  .IS7S. 
The  fruit  of  this  union  has  been  five 
daughters,  all  of  whom  are  livins; 
and  two  married.  Ora  married  Robt. 
L.  Hudgens,  at  present  Alderman  of 
the  First  Ward,  his  second  term  be- 
ing about  to  expire. 


.1.    FRAXK   THROGMORTOX. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the 
popular  and  efficient  Deputy  Sheriff 
of  Williamson  County,  and  is  in  di- 
rect line  for  the  office  of  Sheriff,  for 
which  important  office  he  will  most 
likely  be  nominated  by  the  Repub- 
lican party  for  the  next  time,  which 
nomination  is  almost  equal  to  an 
election,  as  that  party  is  in  the  su- 
premacy by  SOO  to  lOOn  votes  in  the 
County. 

Mr.  Throgmorton  is  the  son  of  ')  . 
J.  Throgmorton,  a  leading  citizen  of 
Grassy  precinct.  He  was  born  March 
11,  1872,  in  Williamson  County,  and 
on  September  2  2,  1895,  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Emma  Fly,  a  charming; 
young  lady,  to  which  happy  union 
four  children  have  been  born,  only 
two  of  which   are  yet   living. 

He  was  elected  constable  in  ISO'i. 
which  office  he  held  until  March. 
1899,  when  he  was  appointed  Deputy 
Sheriff  of  Williamson  County  by 
Sheriff  Joab  Gray,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  four  months,  during  whicii 
time  he  was  in  the  employ  of  the 
Coal  Belt  Electric  Railway  Company. 
He  has  held  the  office  of  Deputy 
Sheriff  continuously,  having  been  in 
1902  chosen  Deputy  by  Sheriff  H.  S. 
Harris,  successor  to  Sheriff  Gray. 

His  services  as  Deputy  have  been 
so  satisfactory,  so  successful  and  so 
excellent  that  his  party  looks  upon 
him  as  the  natural  and  logical  suc- 
cessor to  Sheriff  Harris,  and  should 
lie  be  such,  the  people  will  have  their 
executive  matters  in  judicious,  safe 
hands. 


R.  P.  HILL, 
Justice  of  the  Peace. 


Was  born  at  Ewing,  111..  April  18. 
1874.  He  lost  his  mother  when  ten 
years  old,  but  his  father,  James  C. 
Hill,  is  still  living  in  Louisiana.  He 
graduated  at  Ewing  College  in  the 
class  of  1896.  Like  the  most  of 
American-taught  boys,  his  first  oc- 
cupation after  leaving  school  w^as 
teaching  school,  and  he  put  in  one 
term  at  that  in  Crab  Orchard  Acad- 
emy the  year  after  he  graduated. 
The  following  year  he  ran  for  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  on  the 
Democratic  ticket,  but  so  popular 
-was  he  that  in  a  Republican  district 


with  a  normal  majority  of  60  0,  he 
was  defeated  by  only  30  or  40  votes. 
His  friends  claim  that  he  was  really 
elected  by  GO  votes,  but  was  counted 
out.  In  1901  he  was  elected  Justice 
of  the  Peace  and  by  the  resignation 
of  the  acting  officer  in  his  favor  is 
also  Police  Magistrate.  In  1898  he 
took  up  the  real  estate  business,  in 
which  he  has  been  successful,  hand- 
ling  farm   and   coal   lands   mostly. 

However,  in  company  with  Spill- 
man,  of  DuQuoin,  he  bought  and 
platted  Hill  and  Spillman's  Addition 
to  Marion,  which  they  sold  out  with- 
in a  year. 

His  marriage  took  place  December 
25,  1901,  to  Miss  Lora  Carder,  the 
daughter  of  Willis  Carder,  of  Crab 
Orchard.  He  is  a  K.  P..  Monitor 
Lodge,  No.  23G,  and  a  member  of 
the  order  of  Elks,   Xo.   800. 


popular  with  his  constituents  never- 
theless. 


ROBERT    L.    HUDGEXS, 
Alderman    First    Ward. 

Robert  L.  Hudgens  was  born  in 
Williamson  County  February  24, 
1806.  He  received  his  education  at 
Ewing  College.  Franklin  County,  and 
later  took  a  business  course  at  Lex- 
ington, Kentucky,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  1.8SS.  His  first  employment 
after  leaving  college  was  as  a  clerk 
in  a  General  Merchandise  store  at 
Pulley's  Mills.  For  three  years  he 
was  manager  of  J.  M.  Jean  &  Son's 
wholesale    produce. 

In  1899  he  went  into  General  Mer- 
chandising on  his  own  account  at 
Marion,  which  he  run  for  five  years. 

In  1900  he  was  elected  Alderman 
of  his  ward,  and  is  now  serving  his 
second  term.  For  the  past  year  he 
has  been  in  the  employ  of  C.  A.  Bell, 
of  this  city,  in  Dry  Goods.  Boots  and 
Shoes  and  Gents'  Furnishings. 


WILLIAM    J.    WALKER, 

Lumberman   and   Alderman   of   First 

Ward. 


William  J.  Walker  comes  of  Ten- 
nessee parentage,  but  was  born  near 
Arilla.  Jasper  County,  Mo.,  January 
26,  1853.  He  came  to  Illinois  in 
1865  with  is  parents,  and  settled  in 
Franklin  County.  His  father  was  a 
farmer,  and  he  received  only  the  ad- 
vantages of  a  common  school  educa- 
tion. 

When  but  20  years  old  he  married 
Medora  C.  Crawford,  and  they  have 
had  five  children,  of  whom  four  are 
now   living. 

After  six  years  of  partnership  with 
Mr.  Ferris  in  a  General  Merchandise 
store  at  Christopher,  in  Franklin 
County,  they  burned  out  and  he  re- 
moved to  Marion  and  has  for  fifteen 
years  been  buying  and  shipping 
hard-wood  lumber  and  timber.  He 
is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  was 
elected  Alderman  at  the  last  city 
election.  He  is  not  a  church  mem- 
ber  nor   a  society   man,   but    is   very 


B.  H.  JETER, 
Grocer  and  Alderman  First  Ward. 


Was  born  in  Frankfort,  Franklin 
County,  Illinois,  August  20th,  1849. 
When  an  infant  his  parents  moved 
to  Marion,  and  soon  after  to  St. 
Clair  County,  near  Mascoutah,  where 
his  father,  John  J.  Jeter,  followed 
his  trade  of  blacksmithing  and  farm- 
ing for  a  good  many  years.  Ben  was 
reared  and  educated  on  the  farm, 
brought  up  to  handle  the  plow,  and 
inherited  the  vigorous  constitution 
which  generally  goes  with  it. 

July  2  8,  18  69,  just  before  he  be- 
came 20  years  oil,  he  chose  a  help- 
mate in  the  person  of  Miss  M.  A. 
LaMaster,  and  the  same  year  moved 
back  to  Marion  and  went  onto  the 
farm,  where  he  lived  and  worked  for 
twenty    years. 

When  the  coal  fields  of  Williamson 
County  began  to  be  developed,  Mr. 
Jeter  mined  coal  in  the  winter  and 
"minded"  his  farm  in  the  summer 
for  some  years.  He  then  came  to 
Marion  and  run  a  retail  coal  yard  in 
connection  with  the  teaming  business 
for  five  years.  He  now  has  a  grocery 
store  on  North  Jeter  street,  near 
West  Main  street,  which  he  opened 
in  August,  1903.  In  politics  Mr. 
Jeter  is  a  life-long  Republican,  but 
has  never  been  very  active  in  party 
politics.  At  the  last  municipal  elec- 
tion, April,  1905,  he  ran  for  Alder- 
man of  the  First  Ward,  and  was 
elected  over  his  opponent,  W.  J. 
Walker,  by  8  7  votes.  He  and  his 
worthy  spouse  are  both  members  of 
the  M.  E.  Church  at  Cedar  Grove, 
but  attend  Dr.  Thomson's  church  in 
Marion.  He  is  a  member  of  the  in- 
surance order  of  the  Golden  Cross, 
and  his  wife  is  active  as  a  member 
of  the  W.   C.  T.  U.  of  Marion. 

As  a  family  man  Mr.  Jeter  takes 
the  cake  and  platter,  too.  They  could 
easily  carry  off  the  Rooseveltian 
gold  medal  for  the  most  numerous 
family  of  children  in  the  county,  or 
perhaps  in  the  state.  X'o  less  than 
fifteen  children,  ten  boys  and  six 
girls,  have  arisen  to  call  them  bles- 
sed, of  whom  twelve  are  living.  Six 
are  married  and  six  unmari-ied,  but 
all  are  living  within  sight  of  the  pa- 
ternal home.  Eleven  grandchildren 
have  come  to  help  fill  the  branches 
of  the  family  tree.  It  would  be  hard 
to  find  another  family  in  the  state 
its  equal,  though  happily  Illinois  has 
not  yet  decided  on  race  suicide. 


GEORGE  L.  BRACK. 
Alderman  Second  Ward. 


Mr.  Brack  is  a  native  of  Grassy 
Precinct,  Williamson  County,  Illi- 
nois, where  he  was  born  March  21, 
1869.  He  lost  his  father,  after 
v/hom  he  was  named,  when  but  three 


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months  ol;i,  and  was  raised  on  a 
farm  by  his  step-father,  Willis  Hoov- 
er. His  education  was  limited  by 
the  possibilities  of  our  common 
schools,  until  thirteen  years  old.  At 
that  tender  age  he  began  for  him- 
self and  earned  his  first  money  at 
plowing  with  oxen,  for  which  he  re- 
ceived twenty-five  cents  a  day. 

On  the  first  of  September,  1894, 
he  was  married  to  Miss  Gertie  Rich- 
ardson, by  whom  he  has  had  three 
children,  of  whom  two  are  now  liv- 
ing. Three  years  later  he  moved  to 
Marion  and  settled  in  the  Second 
Ward,  where  he  still  resides.  He  at 
once  began  to  work  in  mine  No.  2, 
and  has  never  had  occasion  to 
change  either  his  occupation  or 
his  mine. 

After  two  years'  work  he  was 
given  an  electric  mining  machine, 
which  he  has  run  without  change  for 
five  years.  None  of  his  predecessors 
ran  it  over  two  years,  which  shows 
the  esteem  in  which  he  is  held  by 
his  employers.  He  is  a  Democrat  in 
politics  and  was  elected  to  the  City 
Council    in   the  Spring  of   1903. 


which  grew  out  of  it.  He  went 
from  the  ranks  to  Captain,  to  which 
he  was  elected  three  times.  When 
the  Spanish  War  broke  out  he  of- 
fered his  services,  but  as  the  war 
closed  suddenly,  he  was  not  needed 
and  was  never  accepted.  As  a 
recognition,  however,  of  his  merit, 
by  special  act  of  the  Legislature  un- 
der Governor  Tanner,  he  was  made 
honorary  commander  of  cavalry, 
with  the  grade  of  First  Lieutenant. 
He  was  married  August  26th, 
1S79,  to  Miss  Emma  Evans,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  W.  S.  Evans,  of  Marion, 
by  whom  he  has  had  two  sons,  Wal- 
ter E.  and  ,Ioe.  Since  1S76  he  has 
been  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  and  Odd 
Fellow. 


April  of  this  year  on  the  Democratic 
ticket.  He  belongs  to  the  Mission- 
ary Baptist   church. 


.JOSEPH  FOZARD, 

Alderman    Third    Ward.      Carpenter, 
Contractor   and    Builder. 


This  gentleman  is  a  native  of 
Yorkshire,  England,  born  at  Battey 
January  15,  1853.  His  father,  Mar- 
tin Fozard,  was  a  woolen  manufac- 
turer in  England,  and  went  to  work 
at  the  same  business  on  coming  to 
this  country,  about  1859.  He  set- 
tle 1  in  New  Jersey  about  the  begin- 
ning of  the  war  and  brought  up  his 
son  to  the  same  trade.  In  1868  the 
family  came  to  Marion,  and  not  long 
after  the  Edwards  Woolen  Mill  was 
started,  and  for  about  2  5  years  the 
family  found  employment  there. 
When  the  business  declined,  Joe 
turned  his  attention  to  bee-keeping 
and  the  manufacture  of  the  Langs- 
troth  patent  hive,  but  that  business 
declined  also,  and  he  gradually  left 
it  off  and  worked  more  and  more  at 
the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  still 
follows.  With  the  exception  of  one 
term,  he  has  served  as  Alderman  of 
the  city  continuously  for  fourteen 
years,  being  twice  elected  by  the  vol- 
untary concurrence  of  opposing  par- 
ties, and  the  last  time  unanimously, 
a  record  without  a  parallel  in  the 
politics  of  this  country.  His  first 
election  to  the  Council  was  in  18  87. 
He  was  re-elected  in  1890,  but  hav- 
ing moved  a  few  feet  over  the  line 
outside  of  the  corporation  when  he 
built  his  shop  and  wind  mill,  he  was 
thrown  out  by  the  opposition  and 
only    served    two    months. 

In  1901  and  again  in  190  3  he  be- 
came Alderman,  and  still  "holds  the 
fort."  In  the  old  State  Militia  Fo- 
zard always  took  an  active  interest 
and  served  for  sixteen  years  in  that 
and    the    Illinois    National     Guards, 


JAMES  L.  ADAMS, 

Capitalist     and  Alderman  of    Fourth 

Ward. 


OTIS   W.   WILLIAMS. 

Furniture       and       Undertaker       and 

Alderman   Third  Ward. 


Otis  W.  Williams  was  born  Sep- 
tember 16,  1870,  in  Wayne  County, 
Illinois.  At  the  age  of  thirteen,  he 
moved  with  his  parents  to  Marion. 
In  1891  he  went  to  Creal  Springs 
and  in  1892  was  married  to  Miss 
Anna  Jones,  then  a  teacher  in  the 
Creal  Springs  schools.  He  was  ap- 
pointed Postmaster  in  1S9  4,  and 
served  in  that  vocation  for  four 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he 
moved  to  Marion.  Here  he  was 
elected  Alderman  in  Ward  3  in 
1902,  and  is  still  serving  in  that  of- 
fice.    He  is  a  contractor  and  builder. 

In  1904  Mr.  Williams  purchased 
the  furniture  business  now  owned  by 
him  in  the  new  Hyde  building,  and 
closed  out  his  business  as  carpenter, 
contractor  and  builder. 


W.   F.   WRIGHT, 
Alderman  of  Fourth  Ward. 


Was  born  in  Williamson  County, 
Illinois,  July  28th,  1852,  The  home 
of  his  youth  was  about  five  miles 
from  Stone  Fort,  on  a  farm,  where 
he  followed  the  plow  until  about 
1890.  He  came  to  Marion  in  the 
Fall  of  1900,  and  in  1903  bought  a 
half  interest  in  the  marble  works 
of  J.  J.  Simpson.  He  sold  his  inter- 
est after  two  years  to  C.  A.  Gent, 
and  went  on  the  road  for  him  for 
three  years.  This  arrangement  last- 
ed for  three  years  more,  when  Gent 
sold  to  him  and  he  ran  it  himself 
three  years  more.  In  January  of 
the  present  year  he  sold  to  Oliver  J. 
Page,  and  opened  a  grocery  and 
butcher  shop,  which  he  is  still  run- 
ning. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Martha  Ellen 
Travelstead.  a  daughter  of  Peter 
Travelstead,  of  Kentucky,  to  whom 
he  was  united  May  Uth.  1873.  Five 
children  have  been  born  of  this 
union,  all  of  whom  are  living.  They 
are:  A.  P.  Wright.  Esco  W..  Celes- 
tine.  Bessie  and  John. 

He  was  elected  to  the   Council   in 


James  L.  Adams  was  born  in  Dick- 
son County,  Tennessee.  February  S, 
1836.  and  came  with  his  parents  to 
Randolph  County,  Illinois,  when  but 
three  years  old.  His  parents  were 
John  Adams  and  Martha  Kennedy, 
who  were  natives  of  North  Carolina 
but  came  to  Tennessee  while  young 
and  married  there.  They  settled  in 
Randolph  County  in  1839.  and  fol- 
lowed farming  in  that  an'  the  ad- 
joining county  of  Washington  when 
Southern  Illinois  was  a  comparative 
wilderness.  James  received  only 
such  book-learning  as  the  schools  of 
those  days  could  furnish,  and  as 
there  were  no  free  schools  the  con- 
stant struggle  with  the  difficulties  of 
a  pioneer  life  left  him  little  chance 
for  an  education.  When  twenty 
years  old  he  moved  to  Jackson  Co.. 
and  about  a  year  and  a  half  later 
into  Williamson,  where  he  has  lived 
ever  since.  In  September,  1862,  he 
enlisted  in  the  110th  Illinois  regi- 
ment, Co.  C,  and  served  continuous- 
ly during  the  war.  In  September, 
1864.  he  was  wounded  at  the  battle 
of  Jonesboro.  Ga.,  and  returned 
home  on  furlough.  After  30  days  he 
rejoined  his  command  at  Savannah, 
which  General  Sherman  soon  after 
reached  at  the  termination  of  his  fa- 
mous "picnic"  through  Georgia, 
The  combined  commands  reached 
Columbia.  South  Carolina,  when  the 
surrender  of  Lee's  forces  wound  up 
the  great  struggle. 

He  received  his  discharge  at  Chi- 
cago in  June.  1865.  and  returned  to 
his  home  and  farm. 

On  January  18.  1855.  he  was  mar- 
ried in  Washington  County.  Illinois, 
to  Miss  Margaret  Ann  Robinson,  be- 
fore he  went  to  Jackson  County,  Un- 
til 1872  he  continued  farming,  but 
for  four  years  thereafter  was  en- 
gaged in  carpentering  and  building. 
He  then  moved  into  Marion  and  for 
sixteen  years  was  in  the  grocery  bus- 
iness. He  was  successful  in  this  and 
gradually  acquired  a  competence 
from  which  he  has  made  his  living 
since  by  loaning. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and 
an  Odd  Fellow,  and  member  of  the 
M.  E,  church  of  Marion.  He  is  at 
present  Alderman  of  the  Fourth 
Ward  and  a  director  in  the  William- 
son County  Savings  Bank. 


SAM  H.  GOODALL. 
President    Carterville    District    Coal- 
mining Company,   Marion. 


Sam  H.  Goodall  is  a  native  of  Wil- 
liamson County,  Illinois,  and  a  life- 
long operator  in  its  coal  fields.     He 


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was  born  in  the  city  of  Marion  Feb- 
ruary 7th,  1S66.  His  common  school 
training  was  supplemented  by  a 
course  at  the  Southern  Illinois  Nor- 
mal University,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1SS7.  and  then  taught 
school  for  two  years.  But  having  a 
taste  for  the  law,  he  dropped  the  pro- 
fession of  teacher  and  attended  the 
University  of  Michigan  Law  School, 
graduating  in   1S91. 

He  was  at  once  admitted  to  the 
bar  and  began  his  legal  and  political 
life  by  being  elected  City  Attorney  of 
Marion.  The  year  following  he  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature  of  Illinois 
from  the  fifty-first  senatorial 
district.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. Realizing  the  immense  re- 
sources of  the  coal-mining  industry 
and  its  promising  outlook  for  busi- 
ness, he  turned  his  attention  and 
talents  towards  its  development. 
Only  four  years  subsequent  to  his 
admission  to  the  bar  he  became  in- 
terested financially  in  the  industry 
at  Carterville,  and  the  same  year, 
1896,  he  opened  the  Crab  Orchard 
mine  near  Marion.  In  1900  he 
opened  up  the  Chicago  and  Big  Mud- 
dy mine  at  Herrin.  and  in  19  02 
formed  the  Carterville  District  Coal- 
mining Company,  to  which  his  ef- 
forts  have   since   been   confined. 

Mr.  Goodall  was  married  May  2.5, 
1893,  to  Miss  Lizzie  Cripps,  daugh- 
ter of  P.  N.  and  Mary  L.  Cripps,  of 
Marion.  They  have  three  children: 
Sam  H..  Jr.,  aged  11:  Mary  A..  9, 
and  Ruth.  4.  They  are  both  mem- 
bers   of   the   Christian    church. 


S.   M.   MAY,  Clerk. 


Was  the  son  of  a  farmer,  and  was 
brought  up  on  a  farm,  receiving  only 
such  education  as  he  could  gather 
at  the  common  district   school. 

He  married,  at  the  age  of  21,  Miss 
Mary  Virginia  Lee,  October  1st, 
1884,  by  whom  he  is  the  father  of 
two  boys,  aged  10  and  IS.  He  be- 
gan housekeeping  in  Marion  the  day 
of  his  marriage,  and  for  eight  years 
followed  the  livery  business.  After 
that  he  entered  a  store  as  clerk, 
which  occupation  he  has  followed 
continuously   until   the   present    time. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  for  three  years  has  been  the  lo- 
cal Secretary  of  Lodge  No.  6415,  of 
the  American  Federation  of  Labor. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
South,  and  active  in  Sunday  School 
work. 


SAM    T.    BRUSH, 
Mine    Owner    and    Operator.    Carbon- 
dale,   Illinois. 


Samuel  T.  Brush  was  born  on  a 
farm  in  Jackson  County.  Illinois,  in 
1842.  His  father  died  in  1849  and 
liis  mother  in  1853.  For  five  years 
the  boy  attended  each  winter  a 
three-months'      subscription      school. 


and  at  the  age  of  12  got  a  position 
as  newsboy  on  the  Illinois  Central. 
In  1S57  he  entered  his  uncle's  store 
and  learned  bookkeeping,  and  in  the 
following  year  began  to  study 
telegraphy  at  Carbondale.  In  two 
months  he  had  charge  of  the  ofBce. 
In  1860  he  entered  the  preparatory 
department  of  Illinois  College  at 
.Jacksonville,  but  in  the  spring  of 
his  first  year  he  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army  under  the  first  call  for  troops. 
In  May,  18  61,  his  company  was  mus- 
tered into  the  Eighteenth  Illinois  In- 
fantry. In  October  he  was  detailed 
by  Gen.  Grant  as  a  telegraph  oper- 
:itor,  and  was  soon  promoted  to  be 
manager  of  the  telegraph  lines  in 
the  territory  commanded  by  Gen. 
Halleck.  In  August,  1862,  he  was 
made  Adjutant  of  his  regiment  and 
participated  in  all  the  movements  of 
the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  until  af- 
ter the  siege  and  capture  of  Vicks- 
burg.  He  marched  with  his  regi- 
ment from  Helena  to  Little  Rock 
with  Gen.  Steele's  army,  and  took 
iiart  in  the  capture  of  the  latter  place 
in  September,  18  63.  In  February. 
1864,  he  was  detailed  as  aide  on  the 
staff  of  Gen.  Kimball,  and  when  the 
latter  was  ordered  east  his  successor. 
Gen.  Joseph  R.  West,  made  Lieut. 
Brush  his  Acting  Assistant  Adjutant 
General.  When  the  army  at  Little 
Rock  was  obliged  to  assume  the  de- 
fensive against  the  Confederates 
under  Gen.  Marmaduke,  Gen.  West, 
being  new  to  the  territory,  depended 
almost  entirely  on  his  young  Adju- 
tant General,  who  practically  super- 
vised every  movement  of  the  de- 
fense; for  seven  days  continuously 
in  his  saddle  or  at  his  desk  issuing 
orders  and  sleeping  one  hour  a  day. 
The  defpnse  was  so  creditable  that 
Gen.  West  recommended  Lieut. 
Brush  for  appointment  as  his  As- 
sistant Adjutant  General,  with  the 
rank  of  Captain,  an  appointment  not 
tendered,  however,  until  after  Lieut. 
Brush  was  mustered  out  of  the  ser- 
vice. He  declined  the  appointment 
because  Gen.  West  was  ordered  to 
the  Rio  Grande,  whet-n  there  was  no 
chance  for  fighting.  In  18  69  Mr. 
Brush  went  into  the  coal  business, 
and  in  18  89  helped  to  organize  the 
St.  Louis  and  Big  Muddy  Coal  Com- 
pany, and  was  elected  its  general 
manager.  Later  he  was  made  presi- 
dent of  the  company  and  still  serves 
in  both  capacities.  His  record  is 
that  of  an  independent  operator. 

Mr.  Brush  has  been  married  twice. 
His  first  wife  was  Sophia  L.  Free- 
man, daughter  of  George  E.  Free- 
man. She  was  born  August  10th. 
184  2,     in    Cleveland,    Ohio.  They 

were  married  in  Anna.  Illinois. 
Five  children  were  born  of  this 
union,  two  only  of  whom  survive: 
James  C.  Brush,  of  St.  Louis,  and 
George  M.  Brush,  of  Carbondale. 
She  died  at  Carbondale, 

His   second   wife   was   Miss   Jennie 


Gander,  daughter  of  Rev.  Newton 
Cander,  born  at  Lafayette,  Indiana, 
.November  2  4,  1S46.  They  were 
married  at  Galesburg,  111.,  Novem- 
ber 8th,  1882,  and  have  had  two 
children,  Elizabeth  at  school  in  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  and  Alice  C,  with  her 
parents.  As  might  be  supposed 
from  his  military  record,  Mr.  Brush 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  also 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church. 


ELI  D.   ROACH, 

Manager  of    the     Marion   Branch     of 

the  Ellis  Store  Co. 


This  popular  and  successful  mer- 
chant is  a  native  of  Williamson  Co  , 
where  he  was  born  August  18,  1.n."ic;. 
He  is  the  son  of  Jesse  Roach,  of 
Tennessee,  and  Lucinda  Smith,  his 
wife,  a  native  of  North  Carolina. 
His  father  died  in  Carterville  in 
.March,  1902,  and  his  mother  at 
Carbondale  February  5,  1877.  He 
was  educated  at  the  Carbondale 
High  School,  but  took  up  milling  for 
an  occupation,  and  for  eleven  years 
made  flour.  In  July,  1888,  he  began 
to  buy  grain  for  the  Ellis  Store  Co  , 
then  took  charge  of  their  hardw.ire 
and  implement  trade,  and  July  1. 
1902,  took  charge  of  their  Marion 
Branch,   which   he  still  runs. 

His  wife  was  Mary  L.  West,  the 
daughter  of  Nicodemus  and  Martha 
West,  to  whom  he  was  united  on 
.November  2nd.  1884.  Six  children 
have  been  born  to  them,  all  living. 
They  are:  Harry,  Jessie.  Lora.  Lulu, 
Mable  and  Howard.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican, a  Free  Mason,  and  he  and  his 
whole  family  are  members  of  the 
Christian  Church. 


JOHN  W.   MITCHELL, 
Supt.   of   the  New  Virginia   Coal   Co. 


This  gentleman,  not  yet  30  years 
of  age,  has  proven  his  business  ca- 
pacity and  taken  the  front  rank  as 
a  manager  in  the  business  of  mining 
coal  in  the  great  Williamson  County 
coal  field.  He  is  the  son  of  the 
cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  this  city,  and  has  had  the  benefit 
of  his  father's  careful  training  in 
business  from  childhood.  He  is  a 
native  of  Marion,  where  he  was  born 
June  7th,  1875,  and  received  his 
school  training  in  Marion's  superb 
educational  institutions.  He  gradu- 
ated at  the  age  of  16.  and  entered 
his  father's  employ  as  deputy  county 
clerk,  filling  the  position  efficiently 
for  four  years.  He  then  went  to 
work  for  the  Hospital  at  Anna.  111., 
as  bookkeeper,  and  remained  with 
them  tor  two  years.  He  then  re- 
turned to  Marion  and  secured  a  po- 
sition as  bookkeeper  with  T.  J.  Arm- 
strong, manager  of  the  Ohio  Valley 
Coal  Company,  since  consolidated 
with  the  Peaboiy  properties,  and 
now  running  under  the  name  of  the 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


Southern  Illinois  Coal  Mining  and 
Washing  Company  of  Marion.  Af- 
ter a  thorough  training  under  Mr. 
Armstrong  he  became  head  book- 
keeper for  the  New  Virginia  Coal 
Company  January  1,  190  4,  and  a 
year  later  was  put  in  charge  of  the 
mine. 

As  superintendent  of  this  large 
property  he  has  developed  unexpect- 
ed and  unrivaled  capacity  and  given 
complete  satisfaction  to  his  employ- 
ers. 

His  marriage  took  place  March  2^, 
18  9  7,  to  Miss  Grace  Duncan,  daugh- 
ter of  James  H.  Duncan,  by  whom  he 
has  had  two  children,  Lucile  and 
Lillie.  He  is  a  Republican  and  a 
member  of  the  M.  E.  church.  He  is 
also  a  K.  P.  and  Modern  Woodman. 


PHILIP    RICK. 


Philip  Rick,  the  popular  pro- 
prietor of  the  West  Side  Hotel  at 
Marion,  111.,  is  a  native  of  Baden, 
Germany,  where  he  was  born  Jan- 
uary 6,  1857.  He  was  reared  on  a 
farm  and  received  the  thorough  and 
liberal  training  of  the  German 
schools.  At  16  years  of  age  he  left 
school,  and  coming  to  America  en- 
tered the  service  of  a  Reformed 
Mennonite  Minister  at  Sterling, 
Whiteside  County,  Illinois,  by  the 
name  of  John  Wickesser,  for  whom 
he  worked  on  the  farm  for  five  years. 
He  then  put  in  four  more  years  for 
others  when  he  married  and  rented 
a  farm  for  seven  years.  His  wife 
was  Anna  Ensey,  of  Swiss  parentage, 
but  American  born  and  reared.  They 
were  married  December  2  0,  188  2,  at 
Indianapolis.  Ind.  She  died  July  IS, 
1901,  at  Morrison,  leaving  him  two 
children:  Jessie,  the  wife  of  Dave 
Bailey,  and  Earl  P.,  who  lives  at 
home  and   is  still  at  school. 

In  connection  with  his  farm,  Mr. 
Rick  run  a  general  store  and  Post 
Office  at  Ideal,  DeKalb  County,  111. 
On  the  2nd  day  of  March,  1902,  he 
married  again,  and  this  time  took 
Mrs.  Willis  Roberts,  a  widow.  In 
September.  1903,  he  sold  out  his 
farm  property  in  Northern  Illinois 
an-l  moving  to  Marion  bought  the 
West  Side  Hotel.  His  wife  was  born 
in  Posey  County,  Indiana,  February 
28,  1S53,  was  taken  to  Gibson  Co. 
by  her  parents  when  a  child  and  to 
Williamson  County  when  seventeen. 
She  married  Mr.  Roberts  September 
3,  1891,  and  became  a  widow.  She 
works  in  the  same  harness  with  her 
husband,  and  together  they  run  the 
most  popular  travelers'  resort  in 
Marion.  He  is  a  Republican  and  an 
Adventist. 


ranks  of  his  profession  in  Southern 
Illinois,  is  a  native  of  Jackson  Co., 
and  a  farmer's  boy.  He  was  born 
near  Carbondale  October  31,  1866, 
and  at  the  age  of  18  entered  the 
Carbondale  High  School.  After 
three  years'  faithful  application, 
however,  he  returned  to  the  old 
homestead  and  in  April,  1889,  two 
years  later,  he  married  and  followed 
the  plow  for  about  six  years.  But, 
tempted  by  the  good  wages  offered, 
he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Fre- 
donia  Coal  Mine  and  dug  coal  for  a 
couple  of  years.  But  he  felt  him- 
self superior  to  his  occupation,  and 
entered  the  private  veterinary  school 
of  Dr.  Killman  at  Kansas  City,  Kas. 
His  studies  under  that  famous  teach- 
er was  supplemented  with  a  year's 
practice  with  Dr.  John  Armstrong,  of 
Toronto,  Canada,  at  Carbondale.  In 
June,  1902,  he  passed  the  rigid  ex- 
amination of  the  State  Board  at 
Springfield,  and  has  since  practiced 
un-ier  this  certificate.  In  July,  1899, 
he  came  to  Marion  and  has  been 
in  steady  and  successful  practice 
here  ever   since. 

His  wife  was  Manthus  Cruse,  also 
a  native  of  Williamson  County,  born 
on  Herrins  Prairie,  by  whom  he  has 
had  three  children:  Libbie,  aged  15; 
Ruby  and  Ray  C.  He  comes  of  Eng- 
lish parentage  and  of  an  exception- 
ally large  family.  His  father  was 
Benjamin  Crowell,  and  his  mother's 
name  was  Catharine.  Both  were 
married  three  times,  and  the  chil- 
dren of  all  three  unions  numbered 
twenty-six.  He  was  the  youngest, 
except  one  sister,  of  a  single  family 
of  14. 

His  father  died  in  1874,  but  his 
mother  still  survives  and  is  living 
with  her  chiliren  at  Carbondale.  At 
the  age  of  78  she  is  as  active  and 
vigorous  as   most   women   of    40. 

In  politics  Mr.  Crowell  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  is  a  member  of  'he  Free 
Baptist  church  and  a  K.  of  P. 


PROF.   J.   B.   CROWELL. 
Veterinary   Surgeon. 


the  usual  time  spent  in  our  excel- 
lent common  schools  he  spent  four 
years  in  the  High  School  at  Marion, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1901. 

After  he  graduated  he  took  up  the 
study  of  pharmacy  and  spent  one 
year  in  a  drug  store  in  Harrisburg. 
After  the  death  of  his  mother,  the 
family  plans  were  changed  and  he 
entered  the  Scranton  Law  Corre- 
spondence School  and  with  a  room- 
mate is  now  pursuing  the  study  of 
the  law.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Missionary  Baptist  church,  a  Prohi- 
bitionist  and  a  Republican. 


SYDNEY    C.    GRIGGS. 


Second  son  of  Benjamin  B.  Griggs, 
and  brother  and  partner  of  Benj.  E. 
Griggs,  was  born  in  Moultry  Co..  111., 
May  16,  1877.  He  never  received 
more  than  a  common  school  educa- 
tion, but  was  reared  to  run  and 
manage  the  saw  and  grist-mill  and 
engine  in  connection  with  his  fath- 
er's business.  When  the  family 
moved  to  Marion  in  189  8  he  went 
into  the  brick  business,  and  lately 
bought  the  father's  interest  in  equal 
partnership    with    his    brother. 

He  is  a  deacon  in  the  Missionary 
Baptist  Church  of  this  city,  a  Prohi- 
bitionist and   a  Republican. 


BENJAMIN  EURA  GRIGGS. 


BENJAMIN  B.  GRIGGS. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch,  who 
with  the  single  exception  of  Dr.  Arm- 
strong easily   takes  the  lead   in   the 


Was  the  youngest  son  of  Benja- 
min B,  Griggs,  and  born  in  Johnson 
County,   111.,   May   Sth,    1882.      After 


Was  the  youngest  son  of  a  large 
family  in  Perry  County,  Ohio.  His 
parents,  Benjamin  and  Anna  Marie 
(Struble)  Griggs,  moved  west  from 
New  Jersey  in  an  early  day,  and  set- 
tled in  the  heavy  timber  of  Ohio, 
among  bear,  deer,  wild  turkeys  and 
Indians.  They  both  lived  to  a  very 
old  age,  upwards  of  80.  and  were 
buried  where  they  had  lived  in  Ohio. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
in  Perry  County,  August  4th,  1846. 
His  father  was  a  nurseryman  and 
brought  up  his  son  to  the  business, 
which  he  followed  until  the  war.  Al- 
though but  17  years  old,  he  enterel 
the  service  in  1863  and  served  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  He  enlisted  in 
the  31st  Ohio,  Co.  G.,  1st  Brigade, 
3rd  Division,  14th  Army  Corps  un- 
der Pap  Thomas,  with  whom  he 
served  in  all  the  terrible  battles  in 
and  around  Chattanooga.  Missionary 
Ridge,  Lookout  Mountain  and  At- 
lanta, and  followed  Sherman  "From 
Atlanta  to  the  Sea."  He  was  under 
fire  every  day  ani  night  through  all 
that  memorable  seige  and  was  never 
wounded  or  sick  in  the  hospital  an 
hour  during  the  whole  time  of  his 
two  years'  active  service,  and  was 
mustered  out  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  at 
the  close  of  the  war  in  1865.  The 
31st  took  its  old  flagstaff,  with  82 
bullet-holes  in  it  and  the  flag  hang- 
ing in  ribbons,  with  them  to  Colum- 
bus, where  it  now  remains  in  the 
State  Military  Museum. 

Two  years  after  the  war,  April  4, 
1867,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah 
Margaret  Fisher,  and  in  1869  came 
to  Moultry  County,  Illinois.  Later 
they  moved  to  Harrisburs,  in  Saline 
County,  and  about  1S9R  settled  in 
Marion.  ilr.  Griggs  sold  out  his 
farm  in  Saline  County  and  bought  a 
brick-yard  and  grounds  at  Marion, 
on  East  College  St.,  near  the  Fair 
Grounds,  and  engaged  in  brick-mak- 
ing, which  he  followed  until  within 
a  few  months,  when  he  sold  out  to 
his  boys. 

In  connection  with  his  farming 
and  nursery  business  he  ran  a  saw 
and  grist  mill  for  about  15  years. 
Although  an  active  and  ambitious 
man  and  a  strong  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, he  never  ran  for  an  office.     He 


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is  the  father  of  eight  children,  of 
whom  five  are  living.  Their  names, 
in  the  order  of  their  birth,  are:  Mrs. 
Marie  Josephine  Clark,  Saline  Co.; 
Roy  Griggs,  Saline  Co.:  Sydney  C. 
Griggs,  Marion:  Bertha  Griggs,  Car- 
terville:  Benjamin  Eura  Griggs,  Ma- 
rion. His  first  wife  died  March  19. 
1904,  at  Marion,  and  he  was  unitel 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Pauline  Camp- 
bell, of  Marion,  September  2:),   190  4. 


JOHN  H.   WHITE,   Deceased. 
Lieut.   Colonel   31st  III.   Vol.   Inf. 

Was  born  in  Connecticut  February 
24,  1S21.  He  came  while  a  child  to 
Indiana  and  in  1S40  moved  to  Wil- 
liamson County.  He  was  a  cabinet 
maker  by  trade,  but  snuffing  the 
battle  afar  off  he  was  very  active  in 
.getting  up  the  1st  Illinois  regiment, 
commanded  by  Col.  Newby,  for  the 
Mexican  war.  Capt.  John  M.  Cun- 
ningham, the  father  of  Mrs.  Logan, 
was  chosen  captain  of  his  company, 
and  .Tno.  A.  Logan,  First  Lieutenant. 
There  were  no  railroads  in  those 
days,  and  the  brave  1st  Regiment 
had  nothing  for  it  but  to  foot  it  over 
to  Santa  Fe,  Xew  Mexico.  They 
started  from  Alton  and  it  was  a 
brave  and  weary  mai-ch,  up  hill  and 
^own  again,  and  it  took  them  two 
good  years  to  do  it  in,  and  they 
didn't  get  a  chance  to  fire  a  shot,  for 
the  little  scrimmage  with  the  greas- 
ers was  snuffei  out  before  they 
reached  Santa  Fe,  but  they  didn't 
know  it.  This  fiasco  took  place  in 
1S47,  and  soon  after  Lieut,  (then 
Jlajor)  White  took  a  trip  to  Cali- 
fornia, across  the  plains. 

In  the  Spring  of  185 7  a  vacancy 
occurred  in  the  office  of  County 
Clerk,  and  White  was  chosen  to  fill 
it.  He  came  home,  served  out  the 
term  and  was  re-elected  twice.  In 
1861  he  resigned  his  office  and  en- 
tered the  army.  He  was  very  active 
in  raising  the  31st.  Illinois,  and  was 
made  Lieut.  Colonel  in  recognition 
of  his  services.  He  fought  at  the 
battle  of  Belmont,  where  he  had  his 
horse  shot  under  him.  and  was  killed 
at  the  memorable  seige  of  Fort  Don- 
aldson. In  1863  his  regiment  raised 
a  marble  monument  in  the  Marion 
cemetery  to  his  memorv,  at  a  cost  of 
$1,000. 


MARION  C.   CAMPBELL, 
Deceased. 


Marion  C.  Campbell  was  the  son 
of  Cyrus  and  Hannah  Campbell.  He 
was  born  in  Williamson  County  Jan- 
uary 12th,  1S34.  He  was  married 
to  Hannah  P.  Cunningham  in  1S60, 
by  whom  he  had  three  children,  two 
sons  and  one  daughter.  His  wife, 
Hannah,  died  in  April,  1864,  the 
sons  having  died  before  the  mother. 
The  daughter.  .\nna  C,  married  John 
D.  R.  Turner,  and  they  now  reside 
in    Springfield,    Missouri, 

March  the  19th,  1866,  he  married 


his  second  wife,  Cyrene  H.  Cun- 
ningham, a  sister  to  his  first  wife, 
who  still  survives  him,  and  lives  in 
Greenville,  Mississippi,  where  he 
died  July  12th,  1902,  at  the  age  of 
GS  years  and  6  months. 

His  father  died  when  he  was 
about  eleven  years  of  age,  his  moth- 
er and  young  sister  (now  Mrs.  Stil- 
ley)  going  to  live  with  his  brother, 
Monroe  Campbell.  He  attended 
school  at  Bainbridge,  taught  by 
Isaac  Stockton,  until  he  mastered 
the  three  "R's,"  readin',  'ritin'  and 
'rithmetic.  At  the  same  time  he 
would  work  in  the  store  and  do  any- 
thing his  brother  had  for  him  to  do. 
In  fact,  he  was  put  in  the  store  be- 
fore he  was  tall  enough  to  reach  the 
goods   on   the   shelves. 

At  this  early  age  he  began  the 
struggle  for  an  independent,  useful 
life.  By  his  energy  and  industry  he 
developed  business  ability  so  rapidly 
that  his  brother  trusted  him  with 
the  whole  management  of  the  busi- 
ness and  store  and  would  call  him 
in  consultation  over  business.  When 
about  fifteen  years  old  his  brother 
sent  him  to  Missouri  to  look  after 
some  business  affairs  in  that  state. 
While  there  he  began  his  career  of 
stock  trading  by  buying  a  lot  of 
young  cattle,  which  proved  to  be  a 
profitable  investment,  but  he  often 
said  the  first  money  he  ever  made 
was  by  swapping  off  a  bald-faced  Bay 
pony  and  getting  five  dollars  boot. 
About  the  year  18.56  he  entered 
into  partnership  with  John  Goodall 
in  the  dry  goods  ani  stock  business, 
which  for  long  years  was  a  thriving 
and  successful  business  to  them- 
selves and  the  County.  Who  of  the 
old  settlers  does  not  remember 
Goodall  and  Campbell?  These  two 
men  were  always  true  friends,  like 
brothers  almost. 

Curt  Campbell,  as  he  was  known 
to  every  man,  woman  and  child,  was 
a  friend  to  everybody,  especially  to 
those  in  distress  and  trouble.  He 
has  gone  on  more  bonds  and  security 
than  any  man  in  the  County.  He 
fed  and  clothed  many  of  the  poor. 
He  was  generous  to  a  fault. 

He  was  intcested  in  and  identi- 
fied with  all  public  improvements, 
and  was  a  friend  to  religion  and  edu- 
cation. By  and  throusrh  his  in- 
fluence and  keen  foresight,  Marion 
has  many  improvements  and  advan- 
tages. He  was  a  man  of  progress 
and  push.  Williamson  County  Agri- 
cultural Association  owes  its  exist- 
ence and  reputation  to  his  untiring 
ener,g>-  and  perseverance.  He  was 
president  of  the  Association  a  long 
time. 

After  many  years  of  a  successful 
business  career.  Dame  Fortune 
played  him  fickle,  and  the  reverses 
came  thick  and  fast.  But  nothing 
daunted  that  courageous,  noble  spir- 
it. He  worked  even  harder  than 
ever  in  his  younger  days,  and  had, 
after    many    hard    years    of   strength 


about  accomplisheJ  his  heart's  de- 
sire— freed  himself  from  debt  and 
accumulated    some    property.  His 

cherished  wish  was  to  get  money 
enough  to  go  back  to  Marion,  go  in- 
to business  and  live  again  in  Marion 
among   relatives   and   friends. 

But  alas,  "Man  proposes  but  God 
disposes."  He  was  as  popular  and 
as  well  known  in  Greenville  as  in  his 
old  home,  and  the  expression  from 
all  when  he  passed  away  was,  "A 
noble,  good  an  i  upright  man  has 
been  taken  from  us.  He  acted  his 
part  well  on  the  stage  of  life,  leav- 
ing behind  him  a  good  name  for 
deeds   well   done." 


CYREXE    H.    CAMPBELL. 

Cyrene  H.  Campbell  was  born 
July  14,  1846,  in  Marion,  Illinois. 
She  was  educated  at  St.  Vincents 
Academy,  Ky.,  where  she  received 
medals  for  good  conduct  and  indus- 
try. She  joined  the  Baptist  church 
August  22,  1865,  and  remained  a 
consistent,  working  member  of  that 
church  until  she  left  it  to  unite  with 
the  Christian  church,  of  which  she 
is  still  an  active,  wide  awake  mem- 
ber. I  am  told  she  was  largely  in- 
strumental in  building  the  Christiaa 
church  at  Marion,  and  since  her  resi- 
dence in  Greenville  ha?  aided  in 
building  the  church  and  encouraging 
the  cause  of  Christ,  -'he  is  a  f,ieu> 
ber  of  the  King's  Daughters.  She, 
with  other  good  ladies,  is  doing  a 
wonderful  work  in  charity. 

She  was  married  to  M.  C.  Camp- 
bell March  19,  1866.  They  lived  in 
Mr.rion  thirty  years,  Tnd  then  (ame 
South,  where  she  still  resides.  She 
has  many,  many  kind,  loving  friends, 
which  she  and  her  husband  have 
made.  All  that  ever  have  known 
them  in  their  adopted  Southern 
home,    love    them. 

J.    M.    BURKHART,    Merchant. 


J.  M.  Burkhart  is  a  native  of  Knox 
County,  Tennessee,  where  he  was 
born  June  S,  1841.  His  father  was 
Peter  Burkhart,  who  was  born  in 
Hagerstown,  Md.,  Nov.  1,  17S5.  His 
mother  was  Anna  Gilliam,  also  a  na- 
tive of  Knox  County.  Tenn.,  where 
she  was  born  in  1801.  The  father 
died  in  1869  and  the  mother  in  1889, 
both   in   Knox   County. 

Mr.  Burkhart's  early  life  and  un- 
til the  Autumn  of  1862  was  spent  in 
Tennessee.  From  the  age  of  16  to 
that  of  2  5  he  worked  at  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  and  his  education  was 
limited  to  the  public  schools  of  that 
County.  In  1S62  he  came  to  Ma- 
rion and  in  1869  entered  the  ranks 
of  the  Dry  Goods  Fraternity.  In 
1873  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  H.  Goodall  and  opened  a  store 
on  the  very  spot  now  occupied  by 
him  and  his  sons  in  the  dry  goods 
business.  The  firm  was  known  as 
Goodall  and  Burkhart,  and  continued 


lao 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


under  that  arrangement  until  1882, 
when  he  bought  out  Mr.  Goodall. 
For  five  or  six  years  he  run  his  busi- 
ness alone,  but  in  1S90  sold  a  half 
interest  to  A.  J.  Binkley,  which  last- 
ed for  thirteen  years  or  until  July 
21,  190  3,  when  he  bought  out  Mr. 
Binkley,  whose  failing  health  pre- 
vented him  from  longer  confinement 
to  business.  The  firm  of  J.  M.  Burk- 
hart  and  Sons  was  then  formed  and 
still   remains. 

When  the  First  National  Bank 
was  organized  in  1S91,  he  helped  or- 
ganize it  and  was  elected  its  cashier. 
He  could  not,  however,  fulfill  its  du- 
ties and  run  his  store,  so  he  re- 
signed, and  two  years  later  sold  all 
his  liank  stock  and  retired  from  the 
company. 

In  .Tuly  of  1903.  when  the  present 
Marion  State  and  Savings  Bank  was 
incorporated,  he  was  one  of  the  orig- 
inal stockholders  and  its  Vice  Presi- 
dent. He  is  still  a  stockholder,  but 
not  an  officer,  preferring  to  take  the 
position  of  Vice  President  of  the 
"Williamson  County  Savings  Bank,  of 
which  his  son  is  cashier,  which  he 
did  upon  its  organization. 

Mr.  Burkhart  married  Ellen  Spil- 
ler  May  2,  1S7  2.  She  was  born  in 
Spillertown  November  10,  1S50,  and 
has  given  birth  to  nine  children, 
whose  names  in  the  order  of  their 
birth  are  as  follows:  Annie  and 
Lena,  deceased:  Carl.  Will.  Jean, 
Kate,  Ethel,  Ralph  and  Ruby.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  lodge 
for  forty  years  last  May.  He  is  re- 
publican in  politics,  but  has  never 
aspired  to  office.  He  affiliates  with 
the  Christian  church,  of  which  his 
wife  is  a  member. 


REV.  B.  F.  BAKER, 

Felts    and    Baker.     Booksellers    and 

Stationers. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  Grassy  Precinct,  Williamson 
County,  Illinois,  September  5,  1857. 
He  was  reared  on  a  farm,  attending 
school  winters  until  1S7T,  when  he 
spent  the  Spring  term  at  the  South- 
ern Illinois  Normal  University  at 
Carbondale.  He  began  teaching  in 
1875  and  taught  for  ten  years  under 
A.  N,  Lodge.  County  Superintendent, 
farming  summers  the  meanwhile. 
July  12,  1877,  at  the  age  of  20,  he 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Sarah  D.  Fly,  the  daughter  of  Rev. 
W.  L.  Fly.  They  have  no  living  chil- 
dren. 

In  October.  1S9G,  he  was  or- 
dained a  minister  in  the  Missionary 
Baptist  church,  and  for  some  years 
served  four  different  churches  of  his 
denomination  as  pastor.  In  August, 
1897,  he  moved  into  Marion  and  in 
1898  was  appointed  deputy  collector 
under  Sheriff  Parks,  and  the  year 
following  was  reappointed  by  Sheriff 
Gray.  While  still  living  on  his  farm 
he  was  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
r.nd    served     for   four   years.        Also 


treasurer   of   his   township   for   eight 
years. 

In  September,  1903,  he  entered  in- 
to partnership  with  James  A.  Felts 
and  opened  a  book-store  on  Block 
14.  ojjposite  the  northwest  corner  of 
the  public  square.  The  partners 
erected  the  very  handsome  brick 
building  they  use  for  that  purpose. 
Mr.  Baker  is  a  very  efficient  and 
faithful  member  of  the  church  to 
which  he  belongs  and  one  of  its 
elders. 


ROSS  H.   CUNNINGHAM, 
Drug  Clerk. 


\Vas  born  at  Crab  Orchard  Novem- 
ber IS,  1877.  He  graduated  from 
Marion  High  School  in  the  class  of 
'97.  worked  in  The  Leader  office 
about  a  year  and  then  enlisted  for 
the  Spanish  war  in  the  4th  III.  Vol. 
Inf..  Co.  C,  Capt.  E.  E.  Barton  in 
command.  He  was  mustered  in  in 
May,  1898,  and  went  into  camp  at 
Jacksonville,  Florida,  and  from 
there    to    Savanna,    Georgia.  The 

boys  were,  however,  too  late  to  see 
actual  service  as  Savannna  was 
evacuated  five  days  before  the  regi- 
ment arrived  there  on  the  transport 
Mobile,  on  the  5th  day  of  January. 
1899.  They  remained,  however,  in 
Cuba  three  months  for  camp  drill 
and  practice  marching  in  the  inter- 
ior, and  returned  by  way  of  Tampa 
and  Augusta,  where  they  were  mus- 
tered out  May  2,  1899.  After  a 
short  time  spent  in  The  Leader  of- 
fice and  Gallaghers'  Confectionery, 
he  went  into  Cline's  Drug  Store. 
where  he  remained  for  two  years 
and  three  months.  About  eight 
months  ago  he  went  to  work  for  Mr. 
Bundy,   where  he   still   remains. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a 
member  of  the  M.  E.  church  and 
fraternally  is  Prelate  of  Monitor 
Lodge  No.  236,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
and  a  member  of  the  Social  Club  of 
Silver   Skulls. 

On  the  3rd  of  January.  1891.  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Ethel  Dunaway, 
by  whom  he  has  one  child,  a  boy. 


A.   E.   HARPER. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the 
principal  owner  of  and  president  of 
the  Marion  Light  and  Water  Co. 
Mr.  Harper  is  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, is  of  Scotch  and  Irish  ances- 
try that  took  part  in  the  Revolution- 
ary struggle  of  America,  and  from 
such  stock  inherits  the  sturdy  busi- 
ness character  and  energy  that  has 
marked  his  relations  with  the  citi- 
zens of   Marion. 

He  became  interested  in  Marion 
when  he  came  to  investigate  the  coal 
fields  around  us.  which  was  done  in 
the  interests  of  the  Great  Steel  Cor- 
poration. He  advised  the  purchase 
of  thousands  of  acres  now  owned  by 
the  Steel  Corporation  and  others 
connected    therewith,    and    therefore 


had  a  large  part  in  starting  the  pros- 
perity that  our  County  has  ever  since 
enjoyed. 

Mr.  Harper  is  a  heavy  holder  of 
Marion  real  estate  besides  being  in- 
terested in  our  Light  and  Water 
Plants,  and  is  a  firm  believer  in  the 
future  of  Marion. 

MRS.    CENA    A.    McCOWN. 


Mrs.  Cena  A.  McCown  is  the 
widow  of  Major  James  D.  McCown, 
who  was  born  February  7,  1824,  in 
Robinson  County,  Tennessee,  and 
died  of  camp  fever  March  10.  18  63. 
He  was  a  farmer  for  many  years,  but 
sold  out  and  went  into  the  Dry 
Goods  business  in  Marion,  which  he 
followed  until  the  war  broke  out. 
when  he  sold  his  interest  to  his  part- 
ner, M.  C.  Campbell,  and  enlisted  in 
the  12Sth  Illinois.  He  was  never  in 
actual  service,  but  remainel  at 
Mound  City  with  his  regiment,  drill- 
ing until  his  death.  Mrs.  McCown 
was  born  February  16.  1828,  in  this 
County,  before  its  separation  from 
^ranklin,  and  was  married  July  IS. 
1844.  The  death  of  her  husband 
left  her  with  seven  small  children  to 
provide  for  and,  remaining  a  widow 
for  forty-one  years,  she  has  spent 
her  life  in  rearing  them.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
church.  Her  faith  has  through  a 
long  life  been  supplemented  by  good 
works,  and.  surrounded  by  her  chil- 
dren and  grand  children,  she  sees 
the  end  draw  near  without  anxiety 
or  regret.  The  Bible  has  always 
been  her  counselor  and  its  Divine 
Author  her  support.  Her  wisdom 
has  come  from  above,  and  she  has 
found  abundant  strength  to  bear  her 
burdens  by  "Leaning  upon  the  Ever- 
lasting Arms." 


JOSEPH    L.    CALVERT. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
'he  son  of  J.  N.  Calvert,  who  came 
from  Alabama  and  settled  in  Mas- 
sac County.  111.,  in  March,  1836.  He 
afterwards  moved  to  Pope  County, 
and  died  in  1878,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-one  years.  His  wife's  name 
was  Cynthis.  She  was  a  Tennessee 
lady  and  died  in  1832.  when  Joseph, 
her  son.  was  but  eight  years  old.  He 
was  born  about  four  miles  from 
Golconda.  in  Pope  County.  February 
19,  1824.  and  received  in  his  boy- 
hood such  education  as  his  parents 
could  give  him  in  that  early  day  bo- 
fore  the  free  school  system  was 
thought  of.  He  was  brought  up  a 
•"arpenter  by  trade  and  worked  at  it 
from  1845  to  1890.  For  eight  y-^ars 
he  sold  lumber  for  Mr.  Vick  in  the 
vards  now  owned  by  W.  G.  Cochran. 
His  eighty  odd  years  sit  lightly  on 
him,  notwithstanding  his  laborious 
life.  He  uses  a  cane  a  little,  reads 
without  glasses,  and  his  hearing  and 
memory  are  very  little  out  of  -e- 
pair.        His  mind  is  a   storehouse   of 


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the  events  of  long  ago,  aad  he  can 
entertain  his  friends  by  the  hour  le- 
lating  incidents  of  his  early  life.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Cumoerland 
Presbyterian  church,  but  previously 
belonged  to  the  New  School  Presby- 
terians. While  a  member  of  ihat 
church,  he  knew  Rev.  Mr.  Ingersol, 
the  father  of  the  famous  "3oi).'  He 
served  that  society  here  for  some 
years.  His  son  was  a  lazy  and  dis- 
solute fellow  and  a  disgrace  to  the 
good  old  man,  spending  his  time 
hunting,  fishing  and  lying  in  'he 
shade  or  drinking  and  frolicking 
with  very  questionable  companions. 
Mr.  Ingersol  bought  a  home  here 
north  and  west  of  Marion  about 
three-quarters  of  a  mile,  on  the  Wil- 
lis Aikman  place.  Mr.  Calvert  is  a 
Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Coun- 
cil. 


W.  J.   AIKMAN. 


Contrary  to  the  well-nigh  uni- 
versal custom  of  this  country,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born, 
reared  and  educated,  was  married 
and  has  always  lived  on  the  spot  and 
in  the  house  where  he  now  lives. 
This  is  remarkable  and  noteworthy, 
but  no  more  so  than  the  well-pre- 
served condition  of  both  house  and 
its  owner.  He  first  saw  the  light 
here  in  Marion  November  10,  1854. 
On  January  1,  1S79.  he  married  a 
daughter  of  the  venerable  S.  S.  Vick 
and  wife.  Miss  Parle  Vick,  who  gave 
him  seven  children,  two  boys  and 
five  girls.  One  son  died  in  infancy 
and  his  eldest  daughter  is  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Baker.  Mr.  Aikman  is  Demo- 
cratic in  politics,  a  member  of  the 
M.  E.  church  South.  President  of  the 
Board  of  Agriculture,  one  of  the 
Board  of  Education  and  belongs  to 
Fellowship  Lodge,  No.  S9,  A.  F.  and 
A.   M. 


WILLIAM    J.    SPILLER, 
Retired  Farmer. 


V.'illiam  J.  Spiller  is  one  of  the 
oldest  citizens  of  this  County,  who 
was  born  here.  That  interesting 
event  dates  as  far  back  as  October 
4,  1833,  when  Williamson  was  a 
part  of  Franklin  County.  He  was 
horn  and  raised  on  a  farm  at  Spil- 
lertown  where  he  and  his  worthv 
wife  lived  and  worked  and  raised 
their   family    of      fourteen    chiHren. 

Three  years  ago  he  moved  to  Ma- 
rion. His  schoolina;  was  only  at  the 
"Deestrict  Skew!  House."  .\bout 
six  years  he  spent  at  Carterville.  in 
the  General  Merchandise  business 
with  his  son-in-law  and  partner.  J. 
V.  Walker.  For  many  years  and  un- 
til the  first  of  the  war.  he  was  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  tobacco,  which  his  father  fol- 
lowed before  him  and  which  he 
learned  in  his  youth  when  at  work 
in  his  father's  factory.  He  has  been 
for   about   forty   years   a   member   of 


Fellowship  Lodge  No.  89,  of  the 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  though  not  a  poli- 
tician. He  is  a  charter  member  of 
the  Christian  Church,  and  has  been 
an  elder  in  it  and  one  of  its  stanch- 
est  supporters  from  its  organization. 
His  marriage  to  Susan  E.  Goodall 
took  place  March  31,  1853,  and  of 
his  eleven  living  children,  nine  of 
whom  are  girls,  all  except  the  young- 
est are  happily  married  and  have 
families  of  their  own.  He  still  owns 
and  works  part  of  the  old  home- 
stead and  one  of  the  old  coal  mines. 


JOHN  G.  SPARKS,  Deceased. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  comes 
of  Scotch  ancestry,  who  settled  in 
Virginia  and  afterwards  moved  to 
Posey  County,  Indiana.  When  about 
eight  years  old  his  parents  brought 
him  to  Staunton,  McCoupin  County, 
Illinois,  where  he  remained  until  he 
was  twenty-one.  He  then  came  to 
Sarahsville,  Williamson  Co..  III., 
where  he  was  married  January  16, 
1834.  to  Miss  Rebecca  Casey.  He 
had  previously  learned  the  hatter's 
tra'^e,  and  in  1839  came  to  Marion 
and  began  the  manufacture  of  all 
kinds  of  hats.  The  year  following 
he  began  the  study  of  law  under  the 
late  Judge  Allen,  and  in  1S42  closed 
out  his  hat  business  and  moved  to 
Belleville,  continuing  his  law  studies 
for  two  years  more,  when  he  received 
his  license  to  practice  by  Judge  Un- 
derwood. In  1844,  as  soon  as  he  re- 
ceived his  parchment,  he  opened  an 
office  in  Jonesboro.  but  three  years 
later  removed  to  Murphysboro,  where 
he  continued  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession for  about  five  years.  In  the 
year  of  1S52  the  California  gold 
fever  carried  him  to  Sacramento.  He 
did  not  go  overland  but  took  the  wa- 
ter route  via  Cairo,  New  Orleans  and 
Panama,  crossing  the  isthmus.  He 
was  four  months  on  a  sailing  vessel 
before  reaching  San  Francisco. 
Without  unnecessary  delay,  he  en- 
tered the  gold  fields  of  Sacramento, 
and  was  soon  half  owner  of  the  Table 
Mountain  mine,  for  which  he  was 
offered  the  snug  sum  of  $10(1, ono, 
but  refusing  he  was  soon  afterwards 
tricked  out  of  it.  and  lost   it  all. 

In  disgust,  he  turned  hi=  back  un- 
on  the  whole  business,  an-"  in  the 
dead  of  winter  started  on  horse-back 
for  Walla  Walla.  Washington.  He 
suffered  much  on  that  trip,  often 
floundering  through  snow  three  feet 
deep  in  the  mountains.  On  reaching 
Walla  Walla,  however,  he  immedi- 
ately "stuck  out  his  shingle"  and 
resumed  the  practice  of  law.  While 
practicing  in  the  Illinois  Courts  he 
had  become  acquainted  with  .\bra- 
ham  Lincoln,  and  a  warm  friend- 
ship had  sprung  tip  between  them. 
In  1861  he  received  the  appointment 
from  Lincoln  as  Assessor  of  Internal 
Revenue  for  the  then  territory  of 
Washington.    His  headquarters   were 


at  Olympia,  Washington.  He  served 
in  this  important  office,  with  eight 
assistants,  until  the  assassination  of 
the  president  brought  Andy  Johnson 
and  a  change  of  administration  and 
officers,  when  he  returned  once  more 
to  his  profession,  which  he  contin- 
ued to  practice  till  his  death.  Novem- 
ber  14.   1891. 


MRS.    MARY    L.    MANIER, 
Pioneer. 


Mrs.  Mary  L.  Manier,  widow  of 
the  late  Judge  John  H.  Manier.  was 
born  in  Florence,  Alabama,  Decem- 
ber 5th,  1830.  Her  father  was  Thos. 
C.  Kelley,  and  her  mother  Caroline 
Cunningham.  Her  mother's  broth- 
er. Capt.  Cunningham,  was  a  cousin 
to  Mrs.  John  A.  Logan.  Her  parents 
married  in  Florence,  Alabama,  but 
came  overland  to  Paducah,  Ky.,  in 
1837.  At  a  later  date  they  came  to 
Marion,  and  settled  on  a  farm  about 
two  and  a  half  miles  to  the  north- 
east of  where  the  town  now  stands. 
Mrs.  Manier  and  her  husband  were 
married  February  7th,  1849.  He 
was  an  active  man  of  business  affairs 
and  an  efficient  public  officer  for 
many  years.  He  was  a  judge  of  the 
County  Court  for  four  years,  and 
served  as  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
ten  years  and  Postmaster  of  Marion 
eight  years.  He  was  born  December 
17th,  1830,  at  Florence.  Alabama, 
and  died  near  Fort  Scott,  Kansas, 
November  21,  1893.  Mrs.  Manier 
was  always  an  active  member  of  the 
Christian  church,  and  in  1846  taught 
the  first  Sunday  School  in  the  Coun- 
ty. For  a  time  she  was  a  school- 
mate  of  Bob  Ingersol. 

She  has  two  living  children.  Emily, 
who  married  Fletcher  L.  Wooster, 
now  chief  weighmaster,  of  U.  S. 
customs,  and  lives  on  Market  St., 
San    Francisco,    Cal.  Her    son    is 

John  E.  Manier.  who  is  a  railroad 
man  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 

The  following  pleasing  incident  is 
taken  from  the  Marion  Post  and  is 
given  as  showing  the  universal  ap- 
preciation of  the  citizens  of  Marion 
for  Grandma  Manier: 

"Grandma  Manier,  an  old  and 
highly  respected  citizen  of  our  city, 
celebrated  her  73rd  birthday  Satur- 
day. There  were  a  large  number  of 
her  friends  and  relatives  assembled 
at  her  home,  an-i  each  one  carried 
her  a  beautiful  present,  which  was 
very  much  appreciated  by  Grandma. 
She  is  a  pleasant  old  lady  and  very 
much  liked  by  the  people  of  our  city. 

"Those  who  were  there  and  en- 
joyed making  the  day  pleasant  for 
Mrs.   Manier  were: 

"Harry  Campbell.  Mrs.  Kate  Wy- 
att.  Geo.  C.  Cunningham.  Lilian 
Stone.  Joseph  Francis,  Ivan  Francis, 
Mrs.  John  Stone.  Mrs.  Maude  Sim- 
mons, Pauline  Duncan.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  M.  Jenkins.  William  Campbell. 
Mrs.  J.  Post,  of  Clinton:  Mr.  and 
Mrs.   Stuard.  Mr.   and   Mrs.  J.   Cline, 


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SOUXEKIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLVOIS. 


Mrs.  Ii-l  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Blankenship, 
Mrs.  Beard,  Salem;  Mrs.  G.  J.  Aik- 
man,  Mrs.  C.  H.  Reynolds,  Mrs.  W. 
T.  Barham  and  son  Charley,  .J.  N. 
Thedford  and  wife,  from  Herrin;  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Bantz.  Ella  Hill, 
Ella  Duncan,  Hortense  Campbell, 
Gertrude  Judd,  Henrietta  Judd, 
Amanda  Harris,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  M. 
Goodall.  Mrs.  R.  Trevor  and  daugh- 
ter, Louise,  Mrs.  G.  W.  Young,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  H.  Scurlock,  Lois  Benson, 
Mary  May,  Georgie  Canfleld,  Maud 
Caniield,  Mrs.  Schick,  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Clemens,  Rev.  Weedon,  Kate  Burk- 
hart,  Lima  .Tenkins,  Celeste  Benson, 
Mrs.  J.  M.  Campbell,  Bettie  Peter- 
son, Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Tippy,  Eli 
Roach.  Mrs.  J.  C.  B.  Smith,  Mrs. 
Geo.  Duke,  Jennett  Sanders,  Mrs.  M. 
Hill  and  Jessie,  Mrs.  Wm.  Spiller, 
Sarah  Gahm,  Alice  Reece,  Ida 
Rochester.  Barnece  Frances,  Mrs.  T. 
J.  Youngblood.  Harriet  Davis,  Julia 
Wollard,"  Mrs.  Reynolds,  Forrest 
Duke,  J.  M.  Burkhart,  James  Camp- 
bell, Lloyd  Campbell,  Mrs.  W.  H. 
Warmer,  Mrs.  A,  F.  White,  Mrs.  H. 
Goodall,  Wm.  J.  Spiller,  Mrs.  Mary 
C.  Kern,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  C.  Mitchell, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thos.  Dunaway,  Mrs. 
C.  A.  McCann,  Mrs.  J.  M.  McCann. 
Mrs  J  M.  Burkhart  and  Mrs.  J.  D. 
Goddard. 


JASPER  BRADLEY, 
Pioneer  Carpenter. 


ADAM    McINTURF, 
Pioneer. 


Adam  Mclnturf  was  born  in  Car- 
ter County,  Tennessee,  January  1, 
1821.  His  father  was  a  native  Ten- 
nesseean  and  his  mother  a  Virginia 
woman.  His  maternal  grandfather 
was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  the  Revo- 
lution. Adam  came  to  Hlinois  in 
1,S5  5  with  his  father's  family  and 
settled  two  an  \  a  half  miles  south 
of  Marion  on  a  farm  which  he  sold 
in  1900.  He  has  always  clung  to 
his  farm,  and  had  very  little  school- 
ing. In  his  political  affiliations  he 
has  always  been  steadfast,  casting 
his  first  vote  for  Henry  Clay,  and 
was  one  of  the  three  Republican 
voters  of  the  County  for  many  years. 
He  has  been  eaually  as  conserva- 
tive and  steadfast  in  his  religious 
opinions  also,  and  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Christian  church  for  forty 
years.  His  cousin,  Dannie  Mclnturf, 
was  one  of  the  earliest  of  the  ad- 
herents of  Alexander  Campbell,  and 
became  a  very  successful  preacher  in 
that  communion  in  Carter  Co.,  Ten- 
nessee. One  of  his  nephews,  James 
Mclnturf,  is  now  a  Chrisitan  preach- 
er  at    Clifton,   Kansas. 

He  has  been  married  twice.  His 
first  wife  was  Harriet  Goodall,  to 
whom  he  was  united  September  11. 
1S5S,  and  by  whom  he  has  four  liv- 
ing children.  She  died  in  1866.  He 
married  again,  February  14,  1867, 
Miss  Mary  Ann  Jones,  of  whom  he 
has  three  living  children.  He  is  a 
member  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  Blue 
Lodge. 


As  far  as  is  now  known,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  enjoys  the  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  oldest  continuous 
native  resident  of  Williamson  Coun- 
ty, for  he  was  born  here  August  12, 
1S33,  and  has  always  lived  here. 
His  father  was  Pleasant  Brailey,  a 
native  of  North  Carolina,  who  moved 
into  East  Tennessee  and  from  there 
into  Franklin  County  7.5  years  ago. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Blackhawk 
War,  but  the  date  of  his  death  can- 
not be  given.  He  settled  on  a  piece 
of  government  land  within  six  miles 
of  Marion,  where  he  raised  a  numer- 
ous family.  None  of  them  could  get 
much  education  in  those  days,  but 
all  were  strong,  able-bodied  men 
and  have  lived  long,  active  and  use- 
ful lives.  When  about  40,  Jasper 
took  up  the  carpenter's  trade  anl 
has  worked  at  it  ever  since.  He 
married,  February  22,  1S56.  Miss 
Neita  Elizabeth  Nelson,  who  bore  him 
six  children  and  died  two  years  ago. 
In  November,  1903,  he  took  for  his 
second  wife  Pamelia  Ann,  the  widow 
of  Tom  Jordan.  She  was  born  in 
1855.  He  is  a  member  of  the  South 
M.  E.  church,  a  Blue  Lodje  Mason 
and  an  Odd  Fellow. 

ISAAC    NEWTON    ATWOOD, 
Pioneer. 

Isaac  Newton  Atwood  was  born  in 
Williamson  County,  Tennessee,  April 
8th,  1S21,  and  was  therefore  S3 
years  old  last  April.  He  was  mar- 
ried September  2  8,  1842,  to  Miss 
Hannah  Hunt,  daughter  of  Abel 
Hunt,  in  Tennessee.  His  wife  was 
a  native  of  Smith  County,  Tennes- 
see, where  she  was  born  September 
17,  1817.  She  will,  therefore,  be 
87' years  old  next  September,  and  is 
at  present  the  oldest  living  person  in 
Williamson  County.  The  young 
couple  came  with  team  and  wagon 
with  a  few  cooking  utensils  and 
sparse  bedding  and  clothing,  im- 
mediately after  their  marriage  in 
1842  and  settled  in  Dade  Co.,  Mo.. 
40  miles  northwest  of  Springfield. 
After  about  two  and  a  half  years 
they  moved  into  Williamson  County 
and  took  up  government  land  in 
August,  1845,  They  deeded  120 
acres,  from  which  they  have  never 
parted,  but  still  hold  title  to  the 
most  of  it. 

For  sixty  years  the  citizens  of  Wil- 
liamson County  have  counted  his 
ticket  for  the  Democratic  party  as 
regularly  as  they  counted  the 
months,  and  were  never  at  a  loss 
where  to  look  for  Isaac  more  than 
for  the  rising  sun  or  the  rivers  and 
streams  of  their  native  heath.  He 
and  his  good  wife  were  "planted" 
and  have  flourished  as  a  "Green  Bay 
Tree."  Six  children  were  born  to 
them,  five  of  whom  are  still  living 
and  settled  about  them.     They   are: 


Edwin  Young,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  who 
died  March  5,  1865,  Isaac  Newton, 
Martha  Jane,  who  married  Henry 
Mose.  Mary  Catharine,  whose  hus- 
band, John  W.  Duncan,  died  not 
long  ago,   and  Moses  Able  Atwood. 

The  old  couple  are  quite  energetic 
yet,  and  can  get  about  pretty  well, 
but  are  cared  for  by  their  children 
and  grand  children  by  turns.  That 
duty  at  present  devolves  upon  a 
pretty  granddaughter.  Miss  Martha 
Rutha,  daughter  of  Edwin  Young 
Atwood. 

Among  the   old    relics   of   the   past 
which    the    Souvenir    man    unearthed 
is  a  castiron  kettle  shaped  much  like 
an    acorn,    having    four    le<s,    whicli 
the    young  couple     used  when    they 
went   to  housekeeping  in   1842,    and 
another  holding  about  a  gallon  which 
the    old    lady    persists    in    calling    an 
oven,  although  a  younger  generation 
would  insist  is  a  kettle,  but  in  which 
Mrs.   Atwood   baked  her  corn  bread, 
sweet    potatoes,    coon     and    possum, 
among  the  glowing  coals  of  a  wood 
Are   or   hangins   on   a   crane   in     the 
fire-place,    in    those   happy    primitive 
days,  before  wealth  and  fashion  had 
built  up  impassable  barriers  between 
our    American    Aristocracy    and     the 
common     people,     from    whom     they 
sprang.  But  the  ancient  "oven"  came 
from     North   Carolina   to     Tennessee 
and    the   young   couple    cooked   their 
first  and  many  a  substantial  meal  in 
it,  and  it  is  as  whole  and  serviceable 
as  it  was  75  or  more  years  ago.    But 
it  rarely  does  service  now,  as  the  old 
folks    and    their    offspring    have    be- 
come so  "aristocratic"  that  they  use 
a  good  cook  stove  and  plenty  of  the 
convenient   modern   utensils   with    it. 
They  now  count  their  offspring  as 
five  children,  thirty-six  grandchildren 
and         forty         great-grandchildren, 
thirteen  more  than  Jacob  took   with 
him  into  Egvpt.     May  they  multinly 
in    this    modern    Eg>'pt    beyond    even 
good  oH  Jacob,  and  fill  the  land  with 
their  progeny. 


WM.  SPRATT  RY  FVANS.  M.  D. 
Pioneer. 


This  venerable  old  gentleman, 
now  verging  upon  96  ye^'-s  olfl.  with 
a  reasonable  prospect  "f  reaching 
the  century  mark  is  the  son  of  Ben- 
jamin Moseley  Evans,  a  tailor  of 
Murphysboro,  North  Carolina.  He 
was  born  on  the  ISth  day  of  July, 
1808,  in  Southampton  County,  Viv- 
ginia,  spent  his  youth  in  Murphys- 
boro and  was  educated  by  his  father 
long  before  the  days  of  the  free 
school  system  rendered  that  task  a 
light  and  pleasurable  one.  His  first 
wife  was  Miss  Mary  J.  Moore,  who 
was  united  to  him  by  the  Rev.  Isaac 
Collard  in  Kentucky. 

From  Kentucky  the  young  couple 
moved  first  to  Henry  County,  Mo., 
and  after  three  to  five  years,  to  Ash- 
lev,    Washington    County,    111.      Two 


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years  later  they  moved  to  Marion, 
which  has  been  their  home  ever 
since.  At  a  forgotten  cate  he  en- 
tered the  Eclectic  Medical  College  in 
Cincinnati,  and  took  up  the  study  of 
medicine  under  Dr.  Beach,  of  Xew 
York.  He  spent  about  three  years 
in  college,  from  which  he  graduated, 
but  it  is  impossible  to  give  the  date, 
as  his  papers,  in  the  lapse  of  time, 
have  been  lost,  but  he  began  to  prac- 
tice in  1S46  and  kept  it  up  until  his 
advancing  years  compelled  him  to 
refuse  to  make  further  calls  or  re- 
spond to  the  appeals  of  the  sick.  He 
was  upwards  of  Tn  when  he  quit 
practicing. 

After  the  death  of  his  first  wife 
he  marrieJ  Miss  Martha  A.  Moore, 
her  sister.  May  6th.  lS4o.  the  Rev. 
R.  Fisk  ofiBciating.  Hi?  family  con- 
sists at  the  present  time  of  seven 
living  children.  twenty-=ix  -grandchil- 
dren and  seven  great-grandchildren, 
For  a  person  of  his  are  he  is  re- 
markably well-preservei.  His  men- 
tal faculties  are  strong,  his  hearing 
almost  perfect  and  his  sight  toler- 
ably good.  He  enjoys  good  health 
and  is  quite  strong  and  active,  going 
to  and  fro  without  other  help  than 
a  cane,  and  very  little  from  that. 

He  is  now  and  has  been  for  many 
years  an  active  member  of  the  M.  E. 
Church  South,  joining  it  before  the 
division  and  remaining  with  it  ever 
since. 

P.  S. — Since  the  above  was  wit- 
ten  "Grandpa"  Evans  closed  his 
life's  labors  and  has  been  laid  peace- 
fully to  rest  until  the  great  day.  He 
died    April    26.    1904. 

Of  the  children  of  his  first  wife 
two  survive  him,  Mrs.  C.  H.  House, 
of  this  city,  and  Mrs.  Fannie  Pres- 
ton, of  Sewanee,  Tenn.  Of  his  last 
marriage  there  are  still  living  one 
son.  Dr.  G.  N.  Evans,  of  Marion,  and 
four  daughters,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Davis, 
with  whom  he  spent  the  closing  davs 
of  his  life;  Mrs.  .Joseph  Fozard.  Mrs. 
G.  T.  Clawson,  of  Odin.  111.,  and  Mrs, 
L,  W.  Carpender.  of  Blairstown.  Mo. 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  at  an 
early  age,  while  still  in  Virginia,  and 
later  joined  the  Louisville  Confer- 
ence of  the  M.  E.  church,  and  for 
some  considerable  time  was  an  ac- 
tive itinerant  in  that  church.  He 
came  with  his  family  to  Marion  in 
1SG9,  and  soon  after  gave  up  the 
practice  of  medicine,  but  continued 
to  preach  the  gospel  until  age  and  in- 
firmity closed  his  lips  in  death.  Rev. 
W.  T.  Mathis,  pastor  of  his  church, 
delivered  the  funeral  discourse,  as- 
sisted by  Rev.  Dr.  F.  L.  Thomson, 
pastor  of  the  M.  E.  church,  a  large 
concourse  of  people  attending. 

JAMES   REED,   Pioneer. 

Is  one  of  the  few  remaining  relics 
of  a  past  generation  who  linger  be- 
yond four  score  years.  But  al- 
though himself  a  native  of  Franklin 
County,  he  comes  of  the  hardy  North 


Carolina  and  Tennessee  stock,  and 
his  life  has  been  spent  close  to  na- 
ture  and   "nature's   Go-1." 

His  father  was  Rhoderick  Reed, 
who  was  born  in  North  Carolina 
April  6,  1796,  from  which  place  he 
emigrated  to  Robinson  County,  Ten- 
nessee, when  young.  He  moved  to 
Illinois  and  settled  in  Franklin  Co. 
in  1S24  and  died  there  in  1SS9,  at 
the  good  old  age  of  9  3.  His  wife 
was  Rebecca  Sanders,  who  was  born 
in    ISIS   and   died   about   1SS.5. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  married 
Elenor  Perry  in  IS 49,  and  by  her 
has  had  eight  children,  all  of  whom 
are  living  and,  except  one,  who  lives 
in  Franklin  County,  are  settled  in 
and  around  Marion.  The  wife  died 
in    1S92. 

Mr.  Reed  boasts  of  being  a  Demo- 
crat, "dyed  in  the  wool,  three  ply 
find  hard  twisted."  His  first  vote 
for  president  was  cast  for  James  K. 
Polk,  and  he  has  never  since  vol- 
untarily omitted  putting  in  a  vote 
for    the    Democratic    ticket. 

In  May.  1S47.  he  enlisted  in  Capt. 
Cunningham's  Company  for  the  Mex- 
ican war.  marched  overland  to  Santa 
Fe.  drilled  for  18  months  and  then, 
the  war  lieing  over,  marched  back 
asrain.  This  was  his  first  and  last 
military  experience,  and  our  kind- 
heartel  Uncle  Samuel  remembers 
him  on  account  of  it — to  the  amount 
of   $12   per  month. 

For  about  14  years  he  has  been  an 
active  member  of  the  Missionary 
Baptist  church  and  a  Deacon  for 
nearly  as  long,  (but  he  don't  draw  a 
Iiension  from  it,  although  probably 
he  ought).  Maybe  the  Chief  Pay- 
master takes  that  into  account  when 
Uncle  Sam  draws  his  monthly  check 
for  $12.  But  what  does  it  matter 
how  the  books  are  kept,  so  long  as 
he  don't  go  hungry. 


MRS.    EIJZABETH    A.    CHADWELL. 


This  venerable  old  pioneer,  now 
nearing  her  Snth  birthday,  was  born 
in  Sangamon  County.  111..  May  10th, 
1S2  5.  Her  father  was  the  Rev,  John 
Shepherd,  of  the  Southern  Illinois 
Conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  born  in  1789, 
Her  mother  was  Sarah  Clark,  born 
in  Maryland  in  1788.  The  Rev. 
John  Shepherd  died  at  the  home  of 
his  daughter  in  Williamson  County 
in  1860,  and  was  followed  to  the 
silent   land   by   his  wife   in   1875. 

Mrs.  Cha-'well's  first  husband  was 
William  Rufus  Roberts,  to  whom  she 
was  united  in  1841.  He  was  a  na- 
tive of  Tennessee  and  met  with 
death  by  an  accident  in  184.5.  They 
had  two  children.  John  L.  Roberts 
and  Sarah  M.  Roberts.  Her  second 
husband  was  Charles  Chadwell.  to 
whom  she  was  married  in  1S49.  He 
was  born  in  Virginia  and  died  in 
1S86.  Three  children  were  born  of 
this  union.  William  B.  Chadwell, 
Eliza  P.  and   Alice. 


Mrs.  Chadwell  was  born  and  bred 
a  Methodist.  Her  father  came  from 
the  Mt.  Vernon  circuit  to  the  Frank- 
fort circuit,  then  embracing  the 
greater  part  of  five  present  counties, 
a  work  that  required  four  weeks  to 
visit  and  preach  at  all  the  appoint- 
ments, preaching  almost  every  day, 
sometimes  twice.  They  located  at 
Zion  church,  where  a  two-room  new 
log  house  was  built  for  a  parsonage, 
at  the  present  site  of  Corinth.  Her 
brother.  Rev.  Moses  Shepherd,  was 
pastor  of  Marion  church  in  1858, 
when  it  included  Corinth.  He  was 
also  Presiding  Elder  in  IS 61,  and 
died  in  the  harness  in  1862. 

S.  S.  VICK,  SR.,  Pioneer. 

S.  S.  Vick  is  probably  the  oldest 
living  continuous  resident  of  Ma- 
rion, and  has  been  through  a  long 
life  one  of  the  most  popular,  active 
and  useful  of  its  citizens.  Although 
nearly  seventy-seven  years  old.  he  is 
rugged  and  sound,  quick  in  action 
and  stands  straight  on  his  legs.  He 
reads  without  glasses,  never  lost  but 
three  teeth  and  has  not  an  unsound 
one  in  his  head.  He  is  hardly  ever 
sick  and  is  always  busy.  He  is  cer- 
tainly a  well-preserve -1  specimen  of 
the  products  of  the  Blue  Grass  State, 
of  which  he  is  a  native.  He  was 
born  June  23,  182  7,  near  Nashville, 
Tennessee,  and  moved  to  Russell- 
ville,  Logan  County,  Ky.,  where  he 
married  Miss  Martha  J.  Newton, 
February  6,  184  8.  In  1S51  he 
moved  his  family,  together  with  his 
father's,  to  Williamson  County.  Two 
years  later  he  was  elected  constable 
and  served  for  four  vears.  From 
1854  to  185  5  he  served  as  Deputy 
Sheriff,  during  which  time  he  was 
appointed  marshal  of  Marion.  In 
1S6S  he  was  appointed  Master-in- 
Chancery  and  served  in  that  capacity 
two  terms,  then  w-as  elected  Justice 
of  the  Peace  and  served  four  years. 
In  1865  he  took  the  third  census  of 
the  County,  which  then  showed  a 
population  of  only  IS. 000.  The 
County  in  those  days  was  Democratic 
by  a  large  majority,  only  three  Re- 
publican votes  being  cast  for  a  a;ood 
many  years.  Coming  from  a  Demo- 
cratic state  and  of  a  Democratic  pa- 
rentage, he  was  naturally  a  Demo- 
crat, but  cast  his  first  vote  on  a  bet 
for  Henry  Clay  for  president.  How- 
over,  he  put  up  his  monev  on  James 
K.  Polk,  and  won.  He  ioined  the 
Masons  in  1858,  and  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows in  1870.  He  is  a  tenth  decree 
or  Council  Mason,  and  has  been  Mas- 
ter of  the  Blue  Lodge,  and  Noble 
Grand  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  For 
many  years  he  was  one  of  the  i^i- 
rectors  of  the  Williamson  County 
Agricultural  Association,  and  active 
in  its  affairs.  He  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Church  South, 
and  served  as  Sunday  School  Super- 
intendent for  about  twenty  years. 
from  its  organization,  and  in  almost 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


every  other  capacity  except  that  of 
Pastor.  He  has  always  been  a 
strong,  influential,  working  friend  of 
education,  is  useful  and  popular 
everywhere,  and  will  die  in  the  har- 
ness. 


MRS.   SALLY   S.   BINKLEY, 
Pioneer. 


This  venerable  old  lady,  whose 
portrait  appears  in  this  book,  will  be 
86  years  old  on  the  22d  day  of 
November  next.  She  is  a  native  of 
Davison  County,  Tennessee,  where 
she  was  born  in  ISIS.  Her  father 
was  Henry  T.  Lee,  who,  coming  from 
Virginia  when  a  boy,  settled  2  5  miles 
from  Nashville.  Tennessee.  She 
grew  to  womanhool  and  married  in 
Tennessee,  not  reaching  Marion  till 
May,  1852.  Her  husband  was  Jacob 
J.  Binkley,  to  whom  she  was  united 
in  April,  1S39.  He  died  October  26, 
1876,  leaving  wife  and  four  children. 

An  important  and  interesting  in- 
cident of  her  life,  indicative  of  the 
industrious  character  of  the  genera- 
tion to  which  she  belongs,  now  rapid- 
ly passing  away,  and  giving  us  a 
glimpse  of  the  manner  of  life  of  our 
forefathers  is  related.  During  the 
darkest  days  of  the  Civil  War,  near 
its  close,  she  and  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Sherertz,  and  her  companions  card- 
ed, spun  and  wove,  entirely  by  hand, 
woolen  clothes  from  the  sheep's 
back  and  cotton  from  the  fields,  and 
cut  and  made  the  garments  by  hand 
also.  The  cotton  was  cleaned  of  the 
seed  by  the  tedious  work  of  their 
nimble  fingers,  then  carded,  spun 
and  woven  and  made  into  garments, 
both  for  men  and  women's  wear, 
without  the  aid  of  our  modern  ma- 
chines from  the  beginning  to  the 
end.  Mrs.  Binkley  herself  made  sev- 
eral full  suits  of  men's  wear  of  blue 
and  grey-mixed  jeans,  for  which  she 
received  $2.00  a  yard.  The  late  J. 
H.  Duncan,  then  sheriff,  bought  and 
wore  one  of  her  suits. 


JOHN    A.    ENSMINGER, 
Pioneer. 


Was  born  at  Equality,  Illinois, 
October  11,  1827.  His  father, 
Emanuel  Ensminger,  died  in  1832, 
when  John  was  but  five  years  old, 
and  the  boy  got  very  little  book- 
learning.  But  in  that  new  and  vital 
country  John  did  not  want  for 
teachers  and  the  means  of  getting  a 
very  practical  eiucation  at  that.  He 
had  one  of  the  very  best  and  most 
entertaining  books  in  the  world  al- 
ways open  before  him — the  book  af 
nature — and  for  teachers,  millions 
of  wild  fowls,  ducks,  geese  and 
turkeys,  plenty  of  bear,  deer  and 
wolves.  No  one  went  hungry  in 
those  day  for  want  of  a  fat  turkey 
or  a  juicy  steak  of  venison  or  bear. 
Settlers  were  two  or  three  miles 
apart,  but  deer  herded  in  packs  of 
25   or   30,   bear  could   be  killed   any 


day  without  the  trouble  of  hunting 
for  them,  and  will  turkeys  roosted 
on  every  tree  and  often  consorted 
with  the  tame  ones  in  the  barn  yard. 
Wolves  were  numerous,  but  not 
saucy,  for  game  was  plenty,  and 
their  nightly  serenades  were  not  un- 
pleasant to  hear.  Even  buffalo  had 
not  yet  wholly  vanished  beyond  the 
setting  sun,  for  about  1S64  Watt 
Heard  killed  a  young  bull  on  the  big 
Saline,  about  six  miles  southeast  of 
Equality.  John    spent    about     six 

years  in  Shawneetown,  but  did  not 
leave   Equality   for  good   until    1849. 

While  at  Shawneetown  he  made 
six  or  seven  trips  to  New  Orleans  on 
flat  boats,  freighting  corn,  tobacco 
and  pork.  The  goo's  were  not  un- 
frequently  all  sold  to  the  planters 
and  their  negroes  on  the  way,  ped- 
dled out  at  the  river  towns,  the 
blacks,  with  the  consent  of  their 
masters,  buying  as  freely  as  the 
whites,    according    to    their    means. 

In  April,  1849,  he  first  landed  in 
Marion  and  went  to  work  for  an 
older  brother,  buying  tobacco,  and  it 
is  an  indication  of  the  flourishing 
state  of  the  industry  that  soon  after 
coming  here  his  brother,  M.  S.  En- 
sminger shipped  1,100  hogsheads  of 
cured  tobacco  to  New  Orleans  in  a 
single  season.  All  this  was  bought 
almost  exclusively  in  this  and  the 
nearby  counties  of  the  state,  Wil- 
liamson, Gallatin.  Saline,  White, 
Hamilton  and  Franklin  Counties. 
With  the  exception  of  one  year  at 
old  Fort  Winnebago,  about  25  miles 
from  Madison.  Wisconsin,  Mr.  En- 
sminger has  lived  in  Marion  since 
1849.  He  was  raised  a  Democrat 
and  always  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket  until  the  roar  of  the  cannon 
in  the  battle  of  Ft.  Sumpter,  when 
he  changed  his  politics  and  enlisted 
in  the  "Bloody"  128th  111.,  in  Aug- 
ust, 1862.  It  is  a  matter  of  history 
that  that  ill-starred  organization 
"vaporized"  and  disappeared  with- 
out ever  fighting  a  battle.  It  is  suf- 
ficient evidence,  however,  of  the  pa- 
triotism of  Mr.  Ensminger  that  he 
holds  an  honorable  discharge  and 
draws  a  pension  to  this  day  for  rheu- 
matism and  chronic  diarrhoea,  con- 
tracted at  Cairo.  His  discharge  is 
dated  at  Cairo,  April  5th,  1863.  His 
efficiency  as  an  ofl^icer  is  shown  by 
the  fact  that  he  has  served  as  Con- 
stable of  Williamson  County  27 
years  and  as  Deputy  Sheriff  five,  four 
years  under  John  H.  Burnett  and 
one  under  T.  L.  Dowell. 

Mr.  Ensminger  keeps  as  a  relic  an 
old  iron  pot.  used  by  his  mother  in 
ISOS,  nearly  a  hundrei  years  ago. 
It  was  the  first  pot  of  her  own  she 
ever  hung  over  the  fire.  The  reso- 
lution of  those  old  people  is  shown 
by  the  fact  that  the  Father  Emanuel 
walked  100  miles  and  back,  to  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.,  for  a  license  to  marry, 
which  he  secured  and  the  couple 
were  united  at  Shawneetown.  John 
was     married     October    7.    1860,    to 


Miss  .Martha  J.  Pulley,  who  died 
March  29,  1890,  leaving  only  one 
living  child  out  of  eight  she  bore. 
This  is  Hannah,  the  wife  of  Mr.  U. 
T.    Simmons. 


MRS.  NANNIE  HENDRICKSON, 
Pioneer. 


This  lady  has  the  distinction  of 
being  the  first  girl  born  in  Marion, 
where  she  has  ever  since  resided. 
She  was  born  October  6,  1S43,  and 
has  been  twice  a  widow.  She  mar- 
ried J.  M.  Goddard  January  6,  1863, 
by  whom  she  had  three  children, 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Purdy,  Mrs.  D.  F.  Riser 
and  Mrs.  D.  G.  Fitzgerald.  He  died 
June  27,  1870.  Her  second  mar- 
riage took  place  March  6,  1873,  to 
Hartwell  Hendrickson,  who  died 
December  29,  1899.  By  him  she 
had  four  children,  Mrs.  W.  B.  La- 
master,  Willis  H.  Hendrickson, 
Stella,  who  died  in  childhood,  and 
Mrs.  George  Nance,  wife  of  the 
grocer  on  North  Market  St. 


R.  W.  GRIMES,   Pioneer. 


Was  born  July  28.  1830,  in  Rob- 
inson County,  Tennesse,  and  came 
to  this  County  in  January,  1849, 
settling  on  a  quarter  section  which 
he  deeded  from  the  government.  He 
has  always  been  a  farmer,  but  was 
an  expert  horse  doctor  as  well.  He 
has  lived  in  this  County  since  1S49, 
except  two  short  periods  of  six 
months  each,  and  has  held  several 
minor  offices  in  the  County.  He  was 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  one  year  by 
appointment  to  fill  a  vacancy.  Dep- 
uty SherifT  six  months  and  Constable 
for  seven  years. 

He  has  been  three  times  a  bene- 
dict. He  married  his  first  wife,  with 
whom  he  lived  4  7  years,  June  16, 
1862.  Her  name  was  Rachael  M. 
Maxey  and  she  died  July  24.  1879, 
after  having  borne  eleven  children, 
six  of  whom  are  dead.  His  second 
marriage  occurred  September  15, 
1S99.  to  Mary  Williams,  the  widow 
of  Rolla  Williams.  She  died  Decem- 
ber 13,  1902,  and  on  the  10th  of  the 
following  June,  1903,  he  again 
chose  a  partner  in  the  person  of  the 
widow  of  M.  C.  Hall,  with  whom  it 
is  to  be  hoped  he  may  yet  spend 
many   peaceful   and  happy  years. 

He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and 
a  member  of  the  Hillright  church, 
which  is  a  branch  of  the  Christian 
church. 


WM.  .\IKM.\N.  Deceased. 
Pioneer. 


Was  the  fourth  son  of  Samuel  and 
Henrietta  Aikman.  who  were  natives 
of  North  Carolina  and  came  to  Ma- 
rion in  1837  with  a  family  of  six 
boys  and  three  girls.  They  settled 
on  the  west  side  before  the  town 
was  platted  or  built,  while  this 
County  was  still  a  part  of  Franklin. 


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and  entered  a  strip  of  land  from  the 
government,  half  a  mile  wide  and 
a  mile  and  a  half  long,  lying  along 
where  the  C.  &  E.  I.  Ry.  now  runs. 
This  tract  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the 
County  and  formed  the  original 
foundation  for  the  prosperity  of  the 
family. 

William  was  born  April  2,  1S25. 
He  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Cox 
March  3d.  1S47.  They  began  life 
on  a  little  farm  of  40  acres,  where 
Villi? m  Hendrickson  now  lives,  and 
where  he  continued  to  live  until  his 
death,  which  occurrei  June  12.  1S90. 
He  was  a  man  of  unusual  power, 
both  of  mind  and  body,  and  of  in- 
exhaustible vitality  and  unwearied 
activity.  He  owned  and  run  a  large 
farm,  built  two  saw-mills  and  a 
planin.?  mill,  manufactured  brick, 
built  and  run  the  steam  roller  mills, 
now  known  as  the  Marion  Flouring 
Mills,  owned  and  run  by  W.  W. 
Whittington  &  Co.  He  was  enter- 
prising and  progressive  and  always 
foremost  in  all  measures  looking 
towards  improvement.  He  always 
bought  the  best  of  everything.  He 
bought  and  used  up-to-date  ma- 
chinery and  improved  stock  of  all 
kinds.  He  kept  no  scrub  horses,  cows 
or  hogs,  but  was  always  on  the  look- 
out for  something  better.  He  bought 
the  first  steam  thresher  ever  used  in 
the   County. 

He  was  a  man  of  energy  and  of 
strong  will  and  steadfastness  of  pur- 
pose. Whatever  he  undertook  he 
completed,  whatever  the  obstacles 
might  he.  He  kept  many  men  in  his 
employ  and  was  of  a  generous  and 
kindly  nature,  giving  freely  and  lib- 
erally for  all  good  purposes. 

When  he  began  housekeening  he 
erected  a  family  altar,  and  he  and 
bis  faithful  wife  had  family  worship 
morning  and  evening  for  the  4  3 
years  and  six  months  of  their  mar- 
ried life.  They  were  members  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  of  which 
■Rev.  X.  A.  Hunt  was  the  pastor,  and 
with  their  children  were  regular  at- 
tendants while  it  stood  When  the 
commotions  attendant  on  the  Civil 
War  reduced  and  finally  brought  the 
little  church  to  an  end.  they  joined 
the  Methodist  Episconal  church  that 
they  might  have  a  reli<rious  home 
and  center.  He  continue'"  in  full 
fellowship  with  that  organization 
until  his  death  and  his  wife  stands 
connected  with  it  until  the  present 
time. 


MRS.  MARY  ELIZABETH  ATKMAN. 
Caswell   County. 


Was  born  In  North  Carolina, 
March  17,  1827.  Her  father's  name 
was  Thomas  Cox.  She  was  a  worthy 
belnmate  of  such  a  man  as  William 
Aikman,  and  kept  her  house  and 
reared  and  educated  her  children  in 
the  same  thorough,  systematic  and 
workmanlike  manner  which  char- 
acterized all  that  he  did.     The  home 


was  the  abode  of  peace  and  love,  and 
the  benediction  of  heaven  rested  up- 
on the  household.  She  was  the 
mother  of  nine  children,  of  whom 
three  are  now  living.  Their  names 
were:  John  Xewton,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  20:  Rosa  Lee,  now  the  wife  of 
William  Hendrickson  (they  bought 
the  old  homestead  and  built  a  new 
house,  where  they  now  reside): 
Thomas  Samuel,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy: Sarah  C,  the  wife  of  George 
Ingram:  Louisa  Mitchell,  who  died 
in  May  1SS8,  whose  only  son,  George, 
was  murdered  by  a  drunken  wretch 
at  West  End,  111.:  George  Jerome 
Aikman,  with  whom  she  makes  her 
home:  Theodore  Aikman,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  2.1:  Francis  Kimball, 
who  married  Dan  Kimball  and  died 
in  1SS5,  at  the  age  of  23. 

Mrs.  Aikman  is  now  in  her  7Sth 
year,  and  wonderfully  well  pre- 
served  for  one  at  her  age. 


JAMES  HUDSPETH,  Pioneer. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  one 
of  the  race  of  hardy  pioneers  of  Ten- 
nessee whose  lives  of  humble  virtue 
and  practical  good  endear  them  to 
all  lovers  of  their  kind,  regardless 
of  the  minor  questions  of  politics  or 
of  religion.  He  was  born  in  Murray 
County,  Middle  Tennessee,  February 
11,  1S21.  His  education  was  limited 
but  he  made  good  use  of  what  he 
got,  and  lived  and  worked  in  Ten- 
nessee until  IS  years  of  age,  when 
be  came  to  Johnson  County  in  lS6n. 
Four  years  later,  July  2.  1S64,  he 
moved  to  Williamson  County,  where 
he   has   lived   ever  since. 

He  began  life  as  a  farmer,  but  as 
he  grew  older  took  up  carpenter 
work  and  house  painting,  and  finally 
learned  the  cabinet  make-s  trade,  at 
which  he  workel  steadily  for  21 
years. 

He  was  converted  to  Christ  in 
1837  and  served  the  M  E.  church 
South  as  class  leader  for  some  years. 
In  the  fall  of  1870,  six  years  af- 
ter coming  to  Marion,  he  was  li- 
censed to  preach,  and  for  about  30 
vears,  and  until  incapacitated  by  his 
increasing  infirmities,  he  supported 
himself  by  laboring  with  his  hands 
ind  preached  the  gospel  in  all  the 
surrounding  towns  and  villages  of 
Williamson    County. 

On  December  9th,  1839,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Sarah  Page,  a  na- 
tive of  Georgia.  Of  her  eight  chil- 
dren were  born,  only  two  now  living. 
She  died  February  28.  1888.  Mr. 
Hudspeth,  although  now  past  S3 
years  old,  is  still  strong  and  vigor- 
ous in  mind,  but  growing  feeble  in 
body,  and  will  soon  be  with  us  only 
as  a  memory.  May  his  faith  and 
works  find  the  reward  of  the  faithful. 


the  mountains  of  his  native  state,  in 
that  Highland  atmosphere  fatal  to 
slavery,  whether  in  Scotland,  Nor- 
way, Switzerland  or  America,  He 
was  born  December  6,  1S27,  and 
came  to  Marion  in  1852.  He  was 
raised  on  a  farm  among  the  moun- 
tains and  has  always  followed  farm- 
ing and  fruit  raising.  He  got  as 
much  an  education  as  his  parents 
could  afford  to  pay  for  in  those  early 
da.vs,  finishing  off  with  a  term  at  the 
Academy  in  Tennessee.  Although 
he  came  to  Illinois  before  the  Civil 
War  made  the  issue  a  sharp  one,  he 
was  always  an  Abolitionist  and  a 
Republican,  and  voted  for  Abraham 
Lincoln.  He  is  a  man  of  intelli- 
gence, of  great  resolution  and  inde- 
pendence of  character,  and  was  a 
convert  to  the  Free  Silver  theories 
of  Bryan.  At  present  he  might  be 
called   a  Bryan   Republican. 

When  he  first  came  here,  with  a 
wife  and  two  children,  he  landed  on 
a  farm  at  Pulley's  Mills  with  three 
dollars  in  his  pocket,  but  he  went  at 
nnce  to  raising  and  dealing  in  to- 
bacco, and  was  very  successful  from 
the  start.  His  last  shipment  to  New 
York  netted  $30,000,  but  he  was 
'■aught  in  the  failure  of  Sam  Thomp- 
son and  Co.  and  'Squires  Taylor  and 
"^o.,  who  were  tobacco  dealers  and 
bankrupted  all  this  part  of  Illinois, 
Rut  the  tobacco  industry  declining 
in  this  region  he  never  recoverei  his 
loss,  but  has  been  content  with  a 
bare  living. 

His  first  wife  was  Eliza  Swatzell, 
to  whom  he  was  married  March  22. 
184  8.  She  bore  him  two  children 
in  Tennessee  and  died  in  18S2.  On 
the  11th  of  the  following  May  he 
took  for  his  second  wife  Gracia  La- 
tham, a  Kentucky  lady,  from  whom 
five  children  were  born,  but  three 
now  living. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Hillright 
Church,  which  is  a  branch  of  the 
Christian  Church,  having  an  organi- 
zation and  a  building  at  Pullev's 
Mills. 


GEO.    A.    FRANKLIN.    Pioneer. 


H.   M.   BASSINGER,    Pioneer. 


Is  a  native  of  Green  County.  East 
Tennessee,    born    and    raised    among 


This  old  gentleman  passed  the 
ISth  milestone  the  20th  day  of  last 
March,  and  is  still  of  exceptional 
vigor  and  activity.  He  was  born  in 
Williamson  County  in  1836.  His 
father  was  Edward  Franklin,  and  his 
mother  Julia  A.  Bradley,  who  had 
six  children  and  died  while  they 
were  all  young. 

George  was  raised  by  Thomas  Pul- 
ley, who  came  from  A'ir.ginia.  Mr. 
Pulley  took  him  when  he  was  13 
years  old  and  he  remained  with  him 
eight  years.  He  was  raised  n  farm- 
er and  has  always  followed  if. 

May  3.  1S06,  he  married  Delia 
Elizabeth  Huffman,  who  bore  him  13 
children  and  died  November  22, 
1900.  Eight  of  the  13  children  are 
living  in  Marion.  In  the  fall  of  1S62 
he    had    the    misfortune   to   enlist    in 


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the  128th  III.,  was  taken  sick  at 
Cairo  and  went  home  when  the  resji- 
ment  broke  up.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Christian  Church  six 
years. 


MRS.   MARGARET  SHERERTZ. 
Pioneer. 


This  lady  is  one  of  the  few  re- 
maining pioneers  of  the  County  and 
only  four  months  and  nineteen  days 
younger  than  Mrs.  Sallie  Binlvley, 
herself  next  in  age  to  the  oldest  liv- 
ing woman  in  the  County.  She  is 
also  a  native  of  Tennessee,  where 
she  was  born  April  11,  1819.  Her 
parents  were  Jacob  and  Elizabeth 
Miller,  old  residents  of  Tennessee. 
Her  husband  was  Daniel  Sherertz, 
who  was  born  January  11th,  1808, 
and  died  at  Marion  about  1884. 
They  were  married  February  2  3'', 
1S4.3.  and  had  seven  children,  all 
Tennesseeans  by  birth. 

Sarah  Catharine  was  born  Janu- 
ary 6,  1844;  Elizabeth  Jane,  born 
June  4th,  184G-  James  Samuel, 
born  August  30,  1851,  and  Malinda 
Ann.,  born  March  24,  1854.  About 
the  close  of  the  war,  in  1865,  the 
family  came  to  Marion,  bringing 
Jacob  Miller  with  them,  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  having  died  some  time  be- 
fore. After  the  trouble  was  over, 
however,  Jacob  returned  to  Tennes- 
see and   died   there. 

Mrs.  Sherertz  was  a  member  of 
the  Lutheran  church  while  in  Ten- 
nessee, but  is  now  connected  with 
the  M.  E.   Church  South. 


JOHN   C.    LEE,    Pioneer. 

Was  born  in  Davison  County,  Ten- 
nessee, March  31,  1830.  His  father 
was  born  in  1806  in  Gouchland  Co., 
Virginia.  He  settled  in  Franklin 
County,  Illinois,  in  December,  1S38, 
and  died  September  19,  1869.  His 
wife's  name  was  Jane  Sanders,  who 
was  born  in  Robinson  County,  Ten- 
nessee, and  died  nine  days  before 
her  husband,  in  1869.  Mr.  Lee 
has  never  married,  but  has  kept 
Bachelor's  Hall  for  the  greater  por- 
tion of  65  years.  He  has  lived  in 
the  country.  He  landed  here  Feb- 
ruary 10th,  1839,  and  has  lived  the 
quiet  life  of  a  farmer  ever  since. 

His  brother,  Francis  Marion  Lee, 
died  the  15th  day  of  last  March,  his 
half-sister,  Mrs.  Sallie  S.  Binkley, 
however,  still  survives.  He  is  not  a 
church  member  nor  a  member  of  any 
Fraternal  Order,  but  always  votes 
the  Democratic  ticket. 


THOMAS  STONE,   Pioneer. 


trade.  His  wife  was  Esther  May, 
who  was  born  182  2  and  died  about 
1892.  They  had  nine  children,  sev- 
en of  whom  still  survive.  Mr.  Stone 
seems  to  have  been  a  universal  me- 
chanical genius.  He  was  chief  en- 
gineer of  the  iron  furnace  at  Tower 
Hill,  having  a  daily  output  of  60 
tons.  He  also  built  mills  and  run 
brick  plants.  He  is  an  Adventist  in 
faith. 

ABRAHAM    KBLLEY. 


Abraham  Kelley,  son  of  Joseph 
Kelley  and  Malinda  (Shadowin)  Kel- 
ley, was  horn  where  Marion  now 
stands  February  2  7,  1832.  The 
eller  Kelley  came  here  in  1830  and 
died  10  years  later.  The  widow  sur- 
vived until  April  18,  18  79,  dying  at 
the  age  of  66  years,  10  months  and 
2  7    days. 

Abraham  was  married  March  13, 
1S52,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Hartwell, 
the  sister  of  the  late  Joseph  Hart- 
well  and  Dow  Hartwell,  the  present 
States  Attorney.  They  had  eleven 
children,  all  of  whom  lived  to  have 
families  of  their  own  except  one, 
which  died  in  infancy.  The  young 
chickens  having  flown  the  nest,  the 
old  birds  sit  brooding  alone  once 
more. 

Mr.  Kelley  enlisted  during  the 
war,  but  like  all  the  rest  of  the 
members  of  the  famous  12  8th  111., 
had  but  a  short  military  experience. 
In  his  case,  however,  we  find  him  in 
the  hospital  at  Mound  City  after 
fourteen  months'  experience  in  camp, 
from  which  he  received  an  honor- 
able discharge  and  is  still  drawing  a 
pension.  He  is  a  Master  Mason,  a 
Democrat  in  politics  and  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
church   for   3  5   years. 


■WILLIS   AIKMAN. 
Farmer  and  Stockman. 


Was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Ky., 
in  1822,  and  came  to  Johnson  Co., 
Illinois,  in  1839.  He  first  settled  in 
Marion  in  IS 89,  where  he  has  re- 
sided ever  since.  His  father  was 
Reuben  Stone,  who  was  a  hatter  by 


Was  born  near  Washington,  Da- 
vies  Co.,  Indiana,  March  14.  1833. 
He  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Aikman  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Edgar  Co., 
111.,  in  1835.  and  to  Marion  in  1837. 
His  father  invested  his  money  in  Ma- 
rion real  estate  until  he  owned  a 
strip  one-half  mile  wide  by  a  mile 
and  a  half  long,  lying  along  the  pres- 
ent line  of  the  Chicago  ani  Eastern 
Illinois  Railroad,  which  he  bought  of 
the    Government    at    $1.25    an    acre. 

The  discovery  of  gold  in  Cali- 
fornia was  the  foundation  of  his  for- 
tune, as  of  thousands  of  others.  The 
story  is  an  old  one,  but  loses  nothing 
of  interest  in  the  telling.  Old  Gen. 
Sutter,  at  that  time  a  resident  of 
Sacramento  Valley,  California,  em- 
ployed James  W.  Marshall,  a  mill- 
right  from  New  Jersey,  to  build  a 
saw  mill  for  him  on  the  south  fork 
of  the  Sacramento,  up  in  the  moun- 
tains of  Eldorado  County,  about  4  5 
miles  from    Sacramento,  where     the 


city  of  Colonia  now  stands.  They 
dug  a  ditch  for  the  tail  race  and 
turned  in  the  water  to  flush  it,  but 
not  having  water  enough,  afterwards 
shut  it  oft  to  dig  it  deeper.  O-i  In- 
ing  so  they  found  the  bottom  cov- 
ered with  gold.  Marshall  had  a  lot 
of  Mexicans  helping  him,  and  their 
exclamations  of  "Ora!"  "Ora!"  soon 
gave  him  to  understand  the  char- 
acter of  the  yellow  pebbles  and  sand 
covering  the  bottom  of  the  trench. 
They  gathered  up  their  pockets  full 
and  Marshall  hastened  back  to  Gen. 
Sutter  with  information  which  put 
an  end  to  their  mill-building,  but 
soon  transformed  the  whole  country 
as  if  by  magic.  Marshall  brought  to 
St.  Louis  and  put  into  the  bank 
there  $200,000  very  shortly  after, 
and  not  less  than  20i»  gold-hunters 
went  from  this  county  alone.  This 
was  in  1849,  but  Aikman  did  not  go 
until  1854.  He  and  James  M.  Mc- 
Coy went  together  by  way  of  New 
Orleans  and  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
and  began  operations  about  six  miles 
from  the  Oregon  line. 

He  was  very  successful  from  the 
start  and  returned  with  his  "pile" 
in  1858,  and  settled  down  on  his 
share  of  the  old  homestead. 

He  was  married  February  2  4, 
1859,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  R.  Wood- 
ward, and  in  1872,  thirteen  years 
later,  built  the  brick  house  where  he 
still  resides.  The  bricks  were  made 
on  his  own  land  and  were  moulded 
by  Shannon  Holland,  now  president 
of  the  First  National  bank  of  Ma- 
rion. They  made  and  burned  200,- 
000.  used  100,000  and  sold  the  rest 
for    $8.00    a    thousand. 

This  was  among  the  first  of  his 
builiing  operations,  but  since  then 
he  has  been  interested  in  the  erec- 
tion of  a  good  many  buildings.  He 
seems  to  have  had  a  natural  pen- 
chant for  building,  and  helped  carry 
brick  and  mortar  to  build  the  first 
brick  building  put  up  in  Marion.  It 
was  the  Western  Exchange  Hotel, 
and  stood  where  the  Denison  block 
now  stands.  The  workmen  got  75 
cents  a  day  for  this  work  and  gave 
Willis  2  5  cents  a  day  occasionally  to 
help.  He  was  then  but  a  boy,  and 
25  cents  was  a  fortune.  Possibly 
those  goo'  old  days  of  hard  work 
and  low  wages  were  happier  than 
the  present,  when  the  same  sort  of 
work  commands  three  or  four  dol- 
lars a  day,  but  it  will  be  a  job  to 
persuade  the  union  brick-layers  of 
the  fact  or  get  them  to  return  to  the 
paradise   they   have   forsaken. 

Mr.  Aikman's  natural  tendency  to 
"thrift,"  as  the  New  Englander  ex- 
presses it,  may  be  illustrated  by  his 
success  as  a  laborer  on  the  Illinois 
Central  Railway,  just  below  Car- 
bondale.  In  1853  he  got  employ- 
ment on  the  new  line  then  being 
built,  paid  his  board  by  keeping  the 
books  for  the  contractor  evenings, 
loaned  small  sums  of  money  to  the 


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workmen  occasionally  and  in  various 
extra  Jobs  added  to  his  earnings,  and 
from  the  first  of  April  till  about 
Christmas  saved  up  $700,  with  which 
he  paid  his  way  to  California. 

Mr.  Aikman  is  the  father  of  eight 
children,  four  of  whom  are  living. 
They  are  two  sons,  Dudley  and  Sam- 
uel, who  reside  at  Marion,  LiZzie.  an 
unmarried  daughter  living  with  her 
parents,  and  Annie,  who  is  a  com- 
panion of  the  daughter  of  John  D. 
Rockefeller,  and  resides  at  Beverly 
Farm,   Massachusetts. 


SAMUEL    K.    CASEY. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the 
son  of  Jesse  M.  and  Cynthia  Casey, 
and  was  born  on  a  farm  four  miles 
north  of  Marion.  Illinois.  March  6, 
1S65.  He  lived  on  the  farm  upon 
which  he  was  born  until  January  t, 
1895.  when  he  went  to  Marion  and 
took  charge  of  the  Egyptian  Press, 
a  weekly  Democratic  paper,  which  he 
has  edited  ever  since,  and  with  Jas. 
H.  Felts  founded  the  Marion  Even- 
ing Post,  a  Democratic  laily  paper 
and  one  of  the  best  daily  papers  in 
the  south  end  of  the  State,  which  Is 
published  from  the  same  office  as  the 
Press. 

On  February  16,  1887.  Mr.  Casey 
was  wedded  to  Miss  Annie  B.  Stil- 
ley.  of  Williamson  County,  who  de- 
parted this  life  in  February,  1892, 
leaving  a  daughter,  Laura  B.  Casey, 
who  still  survives  her. 


LAURA   B.    CASEY. 


Daughter  of  Samuel  K.  and  Annie 
B.  Casey.  She  was  born  February 
4,  ISSS.  and  being  left  without  a 
mamma  at  the  age  of  four  years, 
she  lived  with  her  grandpa  Casey 
and  Aunt  Washie  Oliver  until  she 
was  old  enough  to  attend  the  Marion 
public  schools,  where  she  graduated 
from  the  grammar  department  in 
1903  and  entered  the  high  school. 


ANNIE  B.  CASEY. 

Wife  of  Samuel  K.  Casey,  was 
born  February  14.  IS  63.  married 
February  16,  1SS7.  and  died  Febru- 
ary 23,  1892.  She,  with  her  hus- 
band, was  baptized  into  the  Chris- 
tian Church  at  Lake  Creek  in   1887. 


EUGENE  F.  BONES. 


Eugene  F.  Bones,  managing  editor 
of  the  Marion  Evening  Post,  is  a  na- 
tive of  Williamson  County.  At  the 
age  of  14  years  he  commenced  writ- 
ing for  newspapers,  his  first  work 
having  been  for  Marion  and  Creal 
Springs  papers,  and  at  the  age  of  IS 
was  a  contributor  to  the  Detroit 
Free  Press. 

Having  chosen  newspaper  work 
for  his  occupation  at  an  early  age. 
he  gave  special  attention  to  the 
school    branches    which    were    calcu- 


lated to  fit  him  for  the  work,  and 
the  manner  in  which  he  handles 
news  matter  today  shows  that  he 
learned  well  that  which  he  early  an- 
ticipated would  be  required  to  make 
him   a   capable   newspaper   man. 

He  became  a  regular  writer  for 
the  Egyptian  Press  at  Marion  in 
1S94,  and  IS 99  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  Casey  &  Bones,  editors  and 
publishers  of  the  Press.  In  1900  he 
went  west  and  spent  four  years  in 
editorial  work  on  metropolitan  pa- 
pers, which  greatly  broadened  his 
knowledge  of  the  business. 

He  returned  and  accepted  his  pres- 
ent position  in  January,  this  year, 
and  the  Post  has  shown  great  im- 
provement under  his  management. 
He  is  an  all  round  newspaper  man, 
being  an  able  editorial  writer  and 
paragraphfer.  a  capable  news  gather- 
er and  compositor,  an  art  printer 
and   a   successful   solicitor. 

In  1896  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Mabel  Tate,  a  member  of  one  of  the 
best  families  of  Thompsonville,  111., 
whose  sudden  and  unexpected  death 
in  Xovember.  1903.  broke  up  his 
happy  home  in  Los  Angeles.  Cal., 
causing  him  to  return  to  his  old 
home  to  find  a  haven  for  his  three 
sons,  aged  6,  4  and  2  years  respec- 
tively. 

Editor  Bones  is  30  years  of  age 
and  has  a  bright  future  in  journal- 
ism  before   him. 


MALCOM   ARGYLE   FELTS. 


W.as  born  in  Williamson  County, 
January  22,  1870.  He  is  a  son  of 
Martin  V.  Felts  and  brother  of 
James    H.    Felts.  His    youth    was 

spent  on  the  old  homestead,  where 
he  was  reared  by  a  man  of  steady 
habits  in  the  most  favorable  sur- 
roundings, conducive  to  a  life  of 
sobriety  and  'irtue.  Twenty  years 
of  his  life  were  spent  in  this  close 
communion  with  nature  and  nature's 
God,  and  he  could  not  if  he  would, 
avoid  acquiring  ( possibly  we  ought 
to  say  preserving)  those  mental  and 
moral  characteristics  which  go  to 
form  the  greatest  and  purest  of  men. 

With  such  a  school  the  mere  mat- 
ter of  acquiring  a  knowledge  of  let- 
ters is  of  minor  importance.  Yet  he 
secured  the  rudiments  of  a  common 
school  education  and  in  1896  and 
'9  7  attended  the  college  at  Creal 
Springs.  He  began  teaching  in 
1S90.  and  taught  four  terms  in  Wil- 
liamson County  and  three  in  John- 
son County.  He  had  bought  a  half 
interest  in  the  Johnson  City  Progress 
of  his  brother  James  prior  to  his  ex- 
pe"ience  as  a  teacher,  but  after- 
wards sold  and  came  to  Marion  and 
took  a  position  as  reporter  on  the 
Evening  Post.  He  lately  resigned, 
however,  and  is  now  engaged  in 
handling  agricultural  implements 
with  his  brother  James.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
church,    though    formerly    connected 


with   the     Christian   or   Disciple    or- 
ganization. 

On  May  22,  1904,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Lulu  M.  Cham- 
ness,  the  daughter  of  W.  M.  Cham- 
ness  of  Saline  County. 


JAMES    H.    FELTS,    Printer. 


Was  born  February  1st,  1866,  in 
Williamson  County.  111.  He  is  a  son 
of  M.  V.  Felts,  the  veteran  horticul- 
turist and  apple  man  of  Southern 
Illinois.  Reared  on  the  homestead 
farm  about  five  miles  north  of  Ma- 
rion, he  took  the  usual  routine  of 
our  country  schools,  ending  with  a 
term  at  the  Crab  Orchard  Academy 
and   one  at  Ewing  College. 

In  189S  he  bought  a  half  interest 
in  the  Johnson  City  Progress,  and 
entered  the  newspaper  ranks,  with 
R.  N.  Jones  as  his  partner.  Three 
years  later  he  sold  out  and  joined 
forces  with  S.  K.  Casey,  in  the 
Egyptian  Press  at  Marion,  where  he 
still   remains. 

He  was  married  December  28th, 
1899,  to  Miss  Minnie  E.  Chamness, 
daughter  of  M.  E.  Chamness,  of  Ma- 
rion. 

He  is  an  elder  of  the  First  Mis- 
sionary Baptist  church  of  Marion, 
and  the  Clerk.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Williamson  County  Baptist 
Missionary  Association.  He  takes 
little  interest  in  politics,  but  votes 
the  Democratic  ticket,  and  is  now 
running  for  Clerk  of  the  Circuit 
Court.  His  principal  interest  in  life 
centers  in  the  christian  religion  and 
church,  of  which  he  is  an  earnest, 
active   and   useful   member. 


OLIVER  J.   PAGE. 

Oliver  J.  Page,  the  son  of  Jacob 
Page,  was  born  August  2,  1S67.  in 
Edwards      County,      Illinois.  His 

father  dying  when  he  was  an  infant, 
he  lived  with  his  widowed  mother 
in  Crawford  County  until  he  became 
a  man.  He  began  teaching  in  the 
schools  of  Crawford  County  when 
twenty  years  old.  Two  years  were 
spent  teaching  in  the  rural  schools, 
and  the  third  year  he  became  prin- 
cipal of  the  High  School  of  Hutson- 
ville,  Crawford  County.  After  a 
year's  rest  he  taught  one  year  in 
Eureka  College,  Eureka,  Illinois. 
From  Eureka  he  was  called  to  take 
charge  of  the  Christian  church  at 
Metropolis,  Illinois,  which  position 
he  retained  for  three  years.  During 
the  last  year  of  his  pastorate  he 
served  in  a  double  capacity,  being 
also  principal  of  the  Metropolis  High 
School.  The  year  following,  he  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  superin- 
tendent of  the  city  schools  of  Me- 
tropolis and  directed  a  corps  of  sev- 
enteen teachers.  He  was  re-elected 
the  next  year,  but  he  resigned  to  be- 
come the  editor  and  publisher  of 
the  Massac  Journal  Republican, 
which      he   sold     after   about      three 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


years'  management  and  bought  the 
Leader  at  Marion.  After  two  and 
a  half  years'  management  of  this 
paper,  he  sold  out.  to  Mitchell  and 
Roberts. 

In    1900     the    histor^   of      Massac 
County    appeared,    of    which    he    was 
the    editor,    publisher    and    principal 
author.      The    work    was    mainly    in- 
tended   to    give    the    history    of    Fort 
Massac,  and  is  a  very  creditable  pro- 
duction.        As   a    matter   of    history, 
the  old   fort  has  since  been  changed 
into  a  National  Park  and  is  now  un- 
der   the    supervision    of    the    Daugh- 
ters of  the  Revolution.      While  edit- 
ing the   Metropolis   Journal,   he   was 
elected   to  the   41st   General   Assem- 
bly of   Illinois,   from  the   51st   Sena- 
torial   District,   and    was   the   author 
of   several    very    important    pieces    of 
legislation.     He  Introduced  the  reso- 
lution  of  and   report    upon   the   con- 
dition of  the  old  Lincoln  Monument, 
then    going   to   ruin.      He   was   made 
chairman    of    the    committee    which 
passed    upon    it,    and    drafted,    intro- 
duced   and    secured    the   passage      of 
the  bill  appropriating  $100,000  with 
■which    it    was    rebuilt.      In    1900    he 
was   elected      clerk   of   the     Supreme 
Court   of  the   Southern   Illinois   Dist- 
rict of  Illinois  to  nil  a  vacancy,  and 
served   for   two   years.      He   was   the 
first    and    last    and    only    Republican 
ever   elected    to   that   office.      In    the 
political     campaigns    of     1900     and 
1902,  he  was  in  the  field  continuous- 
ly,   under    the    direction    of    the    Re- 
publican     State    Central    committee, 
and  in  each  campaign  was  called  in 
for  a  week's  service  in  Cook  County. 
Illinois,    where  from   the   same   plat- 
form   with    the    late    lamented    Mark 
Hanna,  he  addressed  an  audience  of 
15,000    voters. 

On  the  17th  day  of  October,  1904. 
Mr.  Page  leased  the  Leader  Office  of 
the  Leader  Printing  and  Publishing 
Company,  for  two  years,  Mr.  Ar- 
thur Roberts  retiring.  On  the  5Wi 
of  November  he  purchased  the  plant 
and  good-will  of  the  Record  Office 
of  Mr.  J.  P.  Copeland,  and  discon- 
tinuei  publishing  the  Record.  Two 
days  later  he  issued  the  first  number 
of  the  "Daily  Non-Partisan."  which 
at  two  weeks  old  commanded  a  city 
circulation    of    400. 

He  was  married  May  S.  1.S91.  to 
Miss  Linnie  D.  Seeders,  a  teacher  in 
Crawford  County.  Of  this  union 
three  children  have  been  born: 
Paul,  Heber  and  Bourke.  who  fill 
their  beautiful  home  on  South  Mar- 
ket street  with  sunshine.  Mr.  Page 
belongs  to  Fellowship  Lodge  No. 
S9.  A.  F.  and  A.  M..  Monitor  Lodge 
No.  236  K.  of  P..  and  Lodge  No.  SCO 
of  the  Elks.  He  also  belongs  to  the 
Woodmen. 


brought  about  in  the  office  force  of 
this  paper,  occasioned  by  a  pro- 
longed spell  of  sickness  of  S.  K. 
Casey,  a  former  chief.  Mr.  Casey 
has  resigned  all  active  participa- 
tion in  its  affairs  and  leased  his  in- 
terest to  E.  F.  Bones,  N.  VanLinder 
and  J.  H.  Felts,  who  now  run  it  un- 
der the  name  and  style  of  The  Felts 
&  Linder  Publishing  Co.  Mr.  Bones 
becomes  editor  in  chief  of  both  the 
Press  and  Post,  Mr.  Linder  takes 
charge  of  the  pres.s-room  and  Mr. 
Felts  of  the  office.  The  combination 
is  a  strong  one,  and  will  prosper. 


ARTHUR     ROBERTS, 
Ex-Editor  of  the  Marion  Leader. 


THE  EGYPTIAN  PRESS. 
Addenda. 


Since   the   Press   article   was   writ- 
ten,     a     radical     change      has     been 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  na- 
tive  of   this   County,    and   one   of   its 
most     promising   young     men.         He 
was    born      at    Corinth,    in     Northern 
Precinct.     July     26th,      1S72.         His 
early   life   was   spent   on   his   father's 
farm,      with    such     advantages      for 
schooling      as   a   farmer   boy   usually 
secures,    until    about    17    years    old. 
when    he    entered    the    Illinois    Nor- 
mal   University    at    Carbondale.      At 
this   excellent    institution    he   contin- 
ued  his  studies  for  eight  years,   not 
graduating    until    June.     1897.       His 
stu  lies,    however,    were    not    contin- 
uous,   but    alternated    with    intervals 
of  teaching,  in  which  he  had  the  un- 
rivaled    advantage   of      putting     the 
knowledge    he    acquired    to    immedi- 
ate   use,    thus   acquiring    the    experi- 
ence  and   skill   as   a   teacher,   lectur- 
er and   editor,   for   which  he   has   al- 
ready   become   famous.      His    reputa- 
tion    as  a  teacher  having    preceded 
him  to  Pope  County,  he  took  a  posi- 
tion in  the  city  schools  of  Golconda, 
and    for   three    successive   years    was 
elected    Superintendent.      Before   the 
close  of  his  third  term,  however,  he 
resigned    and    went    into    the    Insur- 
ance     and    Loan     business,    in      Du- 
buque,  Iowa.      His  skill   and   reputa- 
tion  as  a   teacher,   however,   forbade 
his   burying   his   native    talent   in   an 
insurance      office,    and    after    a     few 
inonths   at  Dubuque,  he  was   invited 
by    the    Slayton    Lyceum    Bureau,    of 
Chicago,    to    go    on    the    platform    in 
the   interest   of  the  new   and  marvel- 
ous discovery  of  Liquid  Air.      He  ac- 
cepted  the   offer,      and    spent     seven 
months   in    the    public   laboratory   of 
that  city  and  the   laboratory  and  li- 
brary  of   the   great   Chicago   Univer- 
sity   in      ascertaining    the     chemical 
and   physical  properties  and  laws  of 
the    liquifaetion    of    gases,    and    inci- 
dentally collecting  the  data  and  pre- 
paring   the    subject    matter    of      the 
Droposed   lecture. 

The  result  was  one  of  the  most 
thorough,  valuable  and  successful 
lectures  ever  delivered  on  scientific 
subjects  in  the  country,  and  which 
has  given  him  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion as  a  lecturer,  and  an  authority 
on  the  subject  of  which  he  treats. 
Entering  the  field   in   1900.  he  filled 


312  engagements  in  all  the  principal 
cities  of  38  states,  including  23  col- 
leges and  universities.  He  was  but 
little  more  than  a  year  covering  this 
field,  covering  five  and  a  fourth 
lectures  a  week.  At  its  conclusion 
he  entered  into  a  contract  with  the 
same  Bureau  to  deliver  the  lecture 
on  the  Atlantic  Coast,  Canada  and 
the  Islands  of  the  Sea.  A  sudden 
and  dangerous  sickness  of  his  only 
child.  Arthur,  however,  compelled 
him  to  cancel  the  engagement,  and 
he   hurried   back   to   Golconda. 

Finding  it  impossible  to  resume 
the  lecture  platform  at  any  certain 
date,  he  once  more  accepted  the 
superintendency  of  the  Golconda 
city  schools,  and  was  again  re-elect- 
ed for  three  successive  terms.  As 
before,  he  resigned  at  the  beginning 
of  his  third  term,  and  purchasing 
the  Marion  Leader  of  O.  J.  Page, 
moved  his  family  to  Marion  and  en- 
tered upon  the  editorial  work,  in 
which  he  is  still  engaged.  In  this 
field  also  he  has  shown  talent  of  no 
mean  order,  building  up  his  paper 
from  the  start  and  increasing  its 
subscription  from  1400  to  1700 
copies  weekly  since  it  came  under 
his   control. 

In  May,  of  the  present  year,  he 
organized  a  company  which  took 
the  name  and  style  of  The  Leader 
Printing  and  Publishing  Company. 
of  which  he  was  elected  editor  and 
manager,  with  a  capital  of  $8,000. 
It  took  control  on  the  first  of  June 
of  the  present  year.  The  improve- 
ment of  its  jobbing  department  is 
particularly  noticeable,  as  they  have 
purchased  some  new  presses  and 
machinery,  and  new  type,  and  they 
are  making  a  specialty  of  fine  high- 
grade   printing. 

The  following  gentlemen  compose 
the  list  of  stockholders  and  officers 
of  the  company:  John  H.  Duncan, 
president;  O.  H.  Burnett,  vice  presi- 
dent- L.  C.  Campbell,  secretary  and 
treasurer;  Arthur  Roberts,  editor 
and  publisher;  T.  M.  Mitchell.  O.  J. 
Page  Llovd  C.  Campbell.  J.  ^■ 
Throgmorton,  John  M.  Dodi,  .T.  B. 
Bundy.  F.  T.  Joyner.  Leonard  Culp. 
\V     T     Felts,    stockholders. 

His  marriage  to  Miss  Delia  Ma- 
lone,  daughter  of  L.  A.  M^lone^  of 
Corinth,  took  place  December  24th, 
18  95  Two  children  have  been  the 
fruit  of  this  union,  Arthur  Roberts. 
Jr..   and   Stewart. 

Since  the  above  was  written  Mi. 
Roberts  has  resigned  his  position 
on  the  Leader  and  O.  J.  Page  suc- 
ceeds  him. 


SAMUEL    DUNAWAY. 

Head    Bookkeeper.     Frisco    Ry..      at 

Danville.   111. 

This  gentleman  was  born  in  Ma- 
rion 111.,  February  11th,  1878.  His 
parents  were  William  Albert  Duna- 
way.  son  of   Samuel  Dunaway,     and 


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Mary  Clara,  now  the  wife  of  Chas. 
M.  Kerns.  His  father  died  August 
31st,  18S0,  and  his  mother  married 
Mr.    Kern   December   5,    1883. 

Samuel  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Marion,  and  graduated 
from  the  High  School  in  the  Class 
of  1895.  He  took  a  thorough  busi- 
ness training  in  the  Gem  City  Busi- 
ness College  at  Quincy.  Illinois, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1899, 
with  the  degrees  of  Commercial  Law 
and  also  of  accounts.  He  first  took 
a  position  as  assistant  bookkeeper 
for  the  Fort  Dearborn  National 
Bank,  under  Mr.  L.  A.  Goddard.  now 
its  president,  and  after  several 
years'  service  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  books  of  the  Frisco  System 
at   Danville,   where  he   still   remains. 

He  was  married  in  March.  1899, 
to  Miss  Mattie  Oakley,  of  Marion. 
Mr.  Dunaway's  mother  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Baptist  church  and  also 
belongs  to  Leroy  A.  Chapter  of  the 
Eastern  Star,  No.  350.  His  sisters 
are  Daisy.  Amelia  and  Anna  Louisa. 


MRS.   A.   C.   REYNOLDS, 
Proprietor  of  the  Commercial  Hotel. 

This  lady  was  born  in  Robinson 
County,  Tennessee,  September  12, 
1841.  Her  parents  were  Thomas 
N.  Barham  and  Elizabeth  Perry, 
both  natives  of  Kentucky,  who  came 
to  Marion  in  1856,  bringing  Mrs. 
Reynolds,  then  only  15,  with  them, 
and  where  Judge  Barham  died  in 
18  67.  She  was  married  to  John  H. 
Reynolds  March  26th,  1859,  and  has 
been  a  resident  of  the  place  ever 
since.  He  was  born  in  Warren  Co., 
Tennessee.  August  24,  1833.  and 
came  to  Marion  in  1858.  He  was  a 
cabinet  maker  by  trade,  and  worked 
at  the  business  for  ten  years.  He 
served  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
sixteen  years  continuously  until  his 
''eath,  which  occurred  September  8. 
1891.  They  had  twelve  children, 
six  girls  and  six  boys,  of  whom  seven 
survive.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Missionary  Baptist  church,  and  has 
always  been  an  active  worker  in  the 
cause. 


WILLIAM  M.   REID, 
Farmer. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  January  2  8th.  1836.  near  Lex- 
ington. Ky..  and  was  one  of  a  fam- 
ily of  eleven  children  of  Colonel 
Reid.  who  moved  to  Randolph  Co., 
Mo.,  in  the  fall  of  1836.  He  was 
compelled  by  circumstances,  as  well 
as  by  a  spirit  of  independence  and 
adventure,  to  look  out  for  himself 
at  the  early  age  of  sixteen,  and  go- 
ing to  Davenport.  Iowa,  learned  the 
trade  of  a  carpenter,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  twelve  years.  After 
working  for  the  government  for  a 
while  in  St.  Louis  and  Columbus, 
Ky..  he  returned  to  Davenport  and 
enlisted   in   the   45th   Iowa   Inft.,   Co 


D.,  and  served  with  credit  in  many 
a  hard-fought  battle  in  the  West 
•ill  the  close  of  the  war.  After  be- 
ing mustered  out,  he  came  to  Car- 
bondale,  Jackson  Co.,  with  a  broth- 
er, N.  G.  Reid,  where  they  raised 
cotton  for  a  couple  of  years. 

In  1870  he  moved  with  his  fam- 
ily to  Spillertown  and  has  been 
identified  with  Williamson  County 
affairs   ever   since. 

His  marriage  to  Miss  Bethany  J. 
Spiller  took  place  at  Spillertown 
February  17th,  1868,  and  he  is  the 
proud  father  of  nine  living  children, 
five  sons  and  four  daughters.  Four 
of  the  five  sons  are  physicians  and 
one  is  studying  law  in  Denver,  Col- 
orado. Although  (perhaps  because) 
he  has  always  suffered  the  disad- 
vantage of  a  limited  education,  in- 
cident to  a  rearing  in  a  new  coun- 
try, he  has  always  been  foremost 
and  active  in  school  matters,  and 
gave  to  all  his  children  a  fine  educa- 
tion. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  in 
Fraternal  matters  a  Master  Mason 
of  the  Blue  Lodge  and  for  4  0  years 
a  consistant  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian   church. 


JAMES  A.   CRAINE, 
Architect  and   Civil   Engineer 


Was  born  at  Murphysboro,  111., 
October  17,  1874.  His  father,  John 
E.  Craine,  was  a  "Pennsylvania 
Dutchman,"  but  came  to  Jackson 
County  soon  after  the  war  and  later 
settled  in  Creal  Springs,  before  the 
town  was  heard  of.  He  married  the 
only  sister  of  W.  F.  Cody — Buffalo 
Bill — and  it  was  from  his  home  the 
famous  scout  began  his  career. 
He  was  a  carpenter  and  builder 
by  trade,  and  taught  his  son  the 
business.  He  died  at  Murphysboro 
about   1900.   at   the  age  of   73. 

James  began  to  help  his  father  at 
the  trade  very  early  in  life,  and  his 
general  education  was  necessarily 
limited.  As  he  grew  older,  how- 
ever, he  developed  remarkable  skill 
both  in  designing  and  building,  and 
when  only  17  drew  full  pay  as  a 
stair  builder  and  interior  finisher  in 
the  city  of  St.  Louis.  In  1893.  at 
the  age  of  19,  he  attended  the 
Academy  of  Architecture  and  Build- 
ing in  St.  Louis,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1894.  The  excellent 
training  he  received  from  his  fath- 
er enabled  him  to  make  rapid  prog- 
ress, and  he  spent  but  a  year  in 
mastering  a  four  years"  course.  Af- 
ter he  left  college  he  spent  some 
time  working  with  his  brothers  at 
Murphysboro,  and  to  his  knowledge 
of  architecture  added  mining  and 
civil  engineering.  This  is  his  field, 
and  he  has  been  assiduously  devoted 
to  it  since  he  left  college.  He  was 
the  originator  of  the  Craine  Con- 
struction Company,  which  has  erect- 
ed many  of  the  most  important 
buildings    in    Southern    Illinois.      He 


has  recently  found  it  necessary, 
however,  to  discontinue  it  in  order 
to  devote  himself  more  fully  to  his 
growing  business  as  architect  and 
civil    and    mining   engineering. 

He  is  the  present  city  engineer  of 
the  City  of  Marion.  He  is  a  pro- 
moter of  the  Gas  and  Sewerage  Sys- 
tems of  Marion  and  is  giving  it  all 
necessary  attention.  The  fine  city 
map  which  accompanies  this  vol- 
ume was  drawn  by  him  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  Gas  and  Sewerage  Sys- 
tems, and  not  at  all  as  a  Real  Es- 
tate map.  It,  however,  answers  the 
purpose   of   both. 

He  has  no  time  to  dabble  in  pol- 
itics, but  devotes  himself  exclusively 
to  his  business. 


BERNARD    S.    CRAINE, 
Civil    and    Mining    Engineer. 


The  subect  of  this  sketch  was  the 
son  of  J.  E.  Craine,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  Catharine  Parker 
Craine,  who  was  born  in  Bowling 
Green,  Kentucky.  He  was  born  at 
Mt.  Erie,  Wayne  County.  Illinois, 
June  24,  1868,  and  while  an  infant 
came  with  his  parents  to  Murphys- 
boro, Jackson  County.  His  father 
was  a  practical  architect  and  build- 
er, and  raised  an  older  son.  J.  E. 
Craine,  to  the  business  of  Civil  and 
Mining    Engineering. 

Upon  leaving  school  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  went  to  work  for  his 
brother,  and  through  him  received 
a  thorough  practical  training  in  his 
profession.  This  is  the  best  school 
in  the  world,  and  he  had  the  assist- 
ance and  special  training  of  one  of 
the  very  best  of  teachers,  for  Mr.  J. 
E.  Craine  is  widely  known  as  an  ex- 
pert in  his  line,  and  is  at  present 
President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Chicago  and  Carterville  Coal 
Company,  which  is  recognized  in 
the  profession  as  the  model  coal 
mine  of  the  country.  That  his 
brother  had  the  benefit  of  five  years' 
training  under  such  a  teacher  is  a 
sufllcient  explanation  of  the  high 
position  in  his  chosen  profession  he 
has  since  been  able  to  attain. 

Since  Mr.  Craine  graduated  from 
his  brother's  practical  school,  he  has 
for  fifteen  years  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  every  branch  of  work  be- 
longing to  his  profession,  and  has 
achieved   distinction   in   all. 

For  the  last  two  years  he  has  been 
the  general  superintendent  of  the 
great  coal  mining  works  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  Coal  Mining  and 
Washing  Company  at  Marion,  and 
during  that  period  was  made  Chief 
Engineer  of  the  whole  system,  which 
position  he  still  holds  and  dis- 
charges its  high  responsibilities  and 
duties  with  credit  to  himself  and 
complete  satisfaction  to  his  em- 
ployers. 

He  was  married  June  12th.  1895, 
to   Miss  Addie  Netherton.  of  a  Ken- 


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tucky  faDiily  from  Benton,  but. 
laterally  a  resident  of  Murphysboro. 
They  have  two  children,  Joe  Bern- 
ard, aged  S  years,  and  Pearl,  aged  6. 


A.   L.   CLINE,   Grocer. 


Was  born  in  Williamson  County 
September  20.  1S61.  He  was  reared 
on  a  farm  and  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  school.  His 
father  was  T.  J.  Cline,  who  also  fol- 
lowed farming,  and  died  in  1897. 
His  mother's  name  was  C.  J.  Asher, 
who    still    survives. 

Mr.  Cline  entered  the  grocery 
trade  in  .Tuly.  1S7S,  and  has  fol- 
lowed the  business  ever  since.  He 
was  one  of  the  original  promoters, 
organizers  and  stockholders  of  the 
Marion  Pressed  Brick  Company, 
and    is    now    its    president. 

He  and  his  wife  have  been  active 
members  of  the  M.  E.  Church  South 
for  15  years.  He  and  his  brother. 
J.  M.  Cline,  selected  the  site  of  the 
present  beautiful  church  building 
on  South  Market  street,  bought  the 
grouni  and  helped  erect  the  struc- 
ture. He  is  one  of  the  stewards  of 
the  organization   and   its  treasurer. 

He  is  a  Democrat  politically,  but 
too  busy  a  man  to  be  active  in  poli- 
tics, although  he  was  for  two  years 
the  City  Treasurer,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Merchants'  Association  of 
Marion. 

His  wife  was  Florence  McCown, 
daughter  of  the  late  Major  W.  D. 
and  his  wife,  Celia  McCown.  They 
were  married  February  S,  1874,  and 
have  had  six  children,  three  of 
whom  are  living.  Their  names  in 
the  order  of  their  births  are  Albert 
Elmose,  Earl  D.  and  Lawrence.  The 
dead  are  a  daughter,  who  died  in 
infancy;  Otto,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  one  year,  and  Minnie  Ethel,  at 
three  and  a  half  years.  Earl  is  fol- 
lowing the  grocery  business  with 
his  father. 


FABIAN   A.   NANCE.    Grocer. 


Is  a  native  of  Mayfield.  Graves 
Co.,  Ky.,  where  he  first  saw  the 
light  March  10,  1861.  His  father, 
William  P.  Nance,  was  a  minister  in 
the  M.  E.  church  South,  and  came 
to  Jackson  County,  111.,  in  1S67.  In 
18  69  he  moved  to  Williamson  Coun- 
ty, where  he  died  in  1871.  The 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mar- 
tha A.  Eaker.  died  in   1901. 

Mr.  Nance  was  general  manager 
of  the  Marion  Electric  Light  plant 
for  nine  years,  from  1893  to  1901, 
when  he  entered  the  grocery  trade 
on  North  Market  street,  which  he 
still  runs.  His  wife  was  Mary  J. 
Broad,  daughter  of  William  Broad. 
They  were  married  October  5.  1S81. 
and  have  had  seven  children,  of 
whom  six  are  living.  They  are  Wil- 
liam C,  George  H.,  Ed  F.,  Valde- 
rair  B.,  who  died  in  1891;  Clarence 
A.,   Warder  P.   and   Robert    D. 


Mr.  Nance  served  in  the  state 
militia  for  eleven  years,  reaching 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant.  His  term 
expired  in  1S92.  He  and  his  wife 
have  been  members  of  the  M.  E. 
church  South  for   2  5   years. 


GEORGE  H.  GOODALL. 


This  most  active,  enterprising 
and  deservedly  popular  business 
man  of  Marion,  began  life  in  this 
city  November  5,  1860.  His  whole 
career  so  far  has  been  pursued  here 
or  radiated  from  this  city  as  its 
center.  His  schoolinj?  is  such  only 
as  our  excellent  cii.v  school."  fur- 
nished, without  collegiate  trim- 
mings. In  the  spring  of  1S82  he 
entered  the  mercantile  ranks  and 
followed  the  business  for  about  16 
years.  In  the  fall  of  1S97  he  began 
to  build  the  new  Goodall  Hotel, 
which  was  finished  two  jear.-?  iatei. 
In  '95  he  became  interested  in  the 
hardwood  lumber  business,  in 
which  he  has  been  engaged  ever 
since.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Wil- 
liamson County  Agriculrural  Asso- 
ciation, Marion  Mercantile  Ass-Dcia- 
tion,  Williamson  Co'inty  Savings 
Bank  and  is  prominent  :ind  active  in 
all  of  them. 

His  energy  and  enterprise  makes 
him  active  in  promoting  eveiy 
legitimate  enterprise  for  the  prog- 
ress and  prosperity  of  the  city  and 
county. 

He  is  Republican  in  i)olitiC5,  a  K. 
P.  and  a  member  of  the  Christian 
church.  His  wife  was,  .4.1thsa  Hund- 
ley, who  is  the  leader  of  I 'le  choir 
of  the  Christian  church,  and  as 
active  in  her  sphere  as  her  husband 
is  in  his.  They  were  married  Aug- 
ust 16.  1882.  and  have  had  three 
children,  William  Robert,  who  died 
in  '89,  and  Grace  and  Lille,  both  of 
whom  are  at  the  Monticello  school. 


T.  S.  ERWAN. 


Born  September  11,  1831.  in 
Clairsville,  Belmont  County,  Ohio. 
When  six  months  old  his  parents 
moved  to  Morristown,  Ohio,  where 
he  was  reared  and  educated.  His 
father  was  John  Erwan.  who  fol- 
lowed the  trade  of  a  fuller  and 
carder,  and  died  in  the  Autumn  of 
1876  at  the  advanced  age  of  80.  His 
mother  was  Sarah  Garner,  who  died 
the  previous  Spring  at  about  the 
same  age.  When  about  18  years 
old  Mr.  Erwan  learned  the  tailor's 
trade,  at  which  he  worked  for  about 
17   years. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he 
enlisted  in  the  50th  Ohio  Vol.  Inf.. 
Co.  F.,  Colonel  Silas  A.  Strickland 
commanding.  He  was  first  under 
fire  at  the  battle  of  Perryville,  Ky.. 
and  was  in  most  of  the  battles  lead- 
ing up  to  and  including  the  seige  of 
Atlanta.  When  Sherman  began  his 
famous  march  "from  Atlanta  to  the 
Sea"  his  regiment  was  turned  back. 


and  marching  to  Nashville  under 
Pap  Thomas,  drove  Hood  out  of  Ten- 
nessee. When  the  war  closed  he 
was  mustered  out,  in  July  1865. 
He  went  through  the  whole  struggle 
without  a  scratch  or  a  day  in  the 
hospital,  and  at  its  close  joined  his 
wife  at  Muncie,  Ind.  The  young 
couple  lived  there  two  years,  then 
returned  to  Ohio  and  remained  till 
March,  1871,  when  he  moved  to 
Marion,  where  he  has  remained  till 
the  present  time. 

He  was  married  three  times.  His 
first  wife  was  Mary  Ann  Gray,  to 
whom  he  was  united  March  4,  1854. 
She  died  August  19,  1881.  after 
giving  birth  to  four  children,  two  of 
whom  are  now  living.  His  son, 
Francis  E.  Erwan,  lives  in  St. 
Louis  and  his  daughter  married  E. 
B.  Watson,  the  present  mayor  of 
Carterville.  His  second  marriage 
took  place  November  15,  18  85,  to 
Mrs.  Nancy  Dunaway,  who  died  the 
following  March,  1886.  For  the 
third  time  he  was  married  June  19, 
1896,  to  Mrs.  Anna  L.  Lillian.  He 
is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  has 
been  a  member  of  the  M.  E.  church 
for   about   nine  years. 


F.    M.    WESTBROOK, 
Merchant. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a 
native  of  Gallatin  County,  Illinois, 
where  he  was  born  April  23,  1831. 
His  parents  were  natives  of  Virginia, 
from  where  they  moved  to  Ken- 
tucky and  later  to  Johnson  County, 
Illinois.  Still  later  they  settled  in 
Gallatin  County.  The  mother,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Anna  McGowen, 
died  at  the  age  of  45,  seventy-one 
years  ago.  The  father  married  the 
second  time,  and  lived  to  the  age  of 
65.  The  subeet  of  this  sketch  was 
the  youngest  of  twelve  children,  all 
of  whom  are  dead  but  two  brothers. 
Lewis  is  now  7  5  years  old  an!  lives 
ten  miles  south  of  Marion,  and  an- 
other brother.  Samuel,  lives,  at  the 
age  of  96,  in  Eldorado.  Saline  Coun- 
ty. Illinois.  He  was  in  the  Black- 
hawk  War  and  still  draws  a  pension. 

After  the  death  of  his  mother.  Mr. 
Westbrook  was  thrown  on  his  own 
resources  at  the  tender  age  of  11 
years  and  6  months,  and  went  to 
work  for  his  elder  brother  on  a 
farm  in  Saline  County,  following  the 
plow  until  26  years  old.  He  then 
came  to  Marion,  in  January,  1857, 
nnd  the  following  July,  renting  a 
building  of  Samuel  Dunaway.  on  the 
corner  where  Mr.  Eb.  Hearn  is  now 
selling  groceries,  opened  a  general 
store.  At  that  time  there  were  but 
three  dealers  in  the  place,  although 
the  town  had  been  located  about  18 
veirs.  They  were  Goodall  &  Pul- 
ley, J.  T.  Goddard  and  Joseph  Huff- 
stutter.  The  latter  had  a  little 
store  in  the  corner  of  the  old  West- 
ern Exchange  Hotel,   which   then  oc- 


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cupied  the  place  where  the  Denison 
block  now  stands.  He  rented  of 
Dtinaway  for  two  years  and  then 
bought  the  corner  he  now  occupies. 
A  small  frame  building  stood  there 
at  the  time,  which  Mr.  Westbrook 
bought  and  where  he  sold  goods  un- 
til it  burned  in  IS 7 6.  He  at  once 
rebuilt  of  frame  and  did  business 
there  till  1899,  when  he  had  it 
moved  to  where  it  still  stands  as 
shown  in  the  halftone.  He  then 
built  two  stories  in  a  substantial 
manner  of  brick,  which  he  finished 
in  1900,  and  still  occupies  as  a  dry 
goods  house.  It  is  called  the  New 
York  store,  and  stands  on  the  south 
side  of  the  square,  corner  of  South 
Market  St.,  as  shown  in  the  half- 
tone of  the  bird's  eye  view  of  the 
town.  The  name  and  style  of  the 
company  is  F.  M.  Westbrook  and 
Company,  with  his  son,  Willis  F. 
Westbrook,  as  the  company. 

Mr.  Westbrook  was  married  Jan- 
uary 26,  1S55,  to  Paulina  J.  Laf- 
ferty,  by  whom  he  has  had  three 
children:  James  W.  Westbrook,  in 
business  in  Oklahoma  City.  Okla- 
homa: Willis  F.  Westbrook,  his 
partner  in  Marion,  and  a  daughter, 
Mrs.  Daisy  B.  Mitchell,  the  wife  of 
C.  E.  Mitchell,  a  merchant  of  Okla- 
homa   City. 

In  IS  SO  Mr.  Westbrook  built  the 
handsome  residence  where  he  lives, 
embowered  in  handsome  sugar  ma- 
ple trees,  almost  too  dense  to  get  a 
snap  shot  for  the  Souvenir  book.  It 
stands  on  the  southeast  corner  of 
Marion  and  Buchanan  streets,  and  is 
one  of  the  best   in  town. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  many  year.s'  standing 
of  the  M.  R.  church. 


WM.   H.   BUNDY.   Druggist. 


Wm.  Bundy  was  born  in  Tennes- 
see April  2,  1846.  His  father,  Dr. 
Samuel  H.  Bundy,  was  a  prominent 
physician  and  surgeon  for  more 
than  50  years.  He  moved  from  Ten- 
nessee with  his  family  to  William- 
son County  in  1852,  and  for  more 
than  half  a  century  was  one  of  its 
most  successful  practitioners.  ,He 
served  in  the  Union  army  for  four 
years  as  surgeon  of  the  9th  111. 
Vol.,  was  mustered  out  at  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  in  1865,  and  resumed  the 
practice  of  his  profession  here.  He 
died  November  21.  1899.  at  the 
age  of  77. 

William  attendel  the  public 
schools  until  1S65,  when  he  had  the 
benefit  of  President  Clark  Braden's 
instruction  in  the  Southern  Illinois 
College  until  it  was  merged  into 
the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  School 
in  1S71.  Being  much  attached  to 
Prof.  Braden  he  refused  to  enter 
the  Normal  and  took  a  school  of  his 
own.  From  this  time  on.  for  ten 
years,  four  of  which  were  spent  in 
Marion  schools,  he  followed  teach- 
ing  as   a   profession.      After   this   he 


bought  land  and  farmed  for  a  while, 
but  having  been  educated  by  his 
father  for  a  physician,  farming  did 
not  suit  him,  and  he  soon  dropped 
it  and  went  into  the  drug  business 
with  C.  H.  Dennison,  president  of 
Marion  State  Savings  Bank  and 
Mayor  of  the  city.  After  two  years 
Denison  sold  out  his  interest  to  W. 
S.  Washburn,  who  in  turn  sold  to 
Mr.    Bundy. 

In  1869  he  took  a  hand  in  poli- 
tics for  a  short  time,  and  served  one 
term  as  County  Surveyor.  Later  he 
was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  by 
James  H.  Duncan,  and  served  from 
'82  to  '86.  In  the  fall  of  'S6  he  was 
elected  to  the  legislature  and  served 
two  years.  He  always  took  an 
active  interest  in  school  matters, 
and  served  on  the  board  of  directors 
from  to  .      After  the 

change  he  was  elected  president  of 
the  Board  of  Education  for  the 
City  of  Marion  and  was  re-elected 
for  a  second  term.  He  was  Mayor 
of  the  city  one  term,  in  1891,  and 
did  good  work,  getting  the  Electric 
Belt  Line  Railway  in  operation.  As 
secretary  of  the  Williamson  County 
Agricultural  Board,  he  has  been  for 
more  than  2  0  years  the  moving 
spirit  of  that  organization.  He 
served  for  five  years  as  Director  be- 
fore accepting  the  secretaryship, 
which  he  has  held  continuously  ever 
since,    except    one   year. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  effi- 
cient character  of  that  society  and 
its  excellent  condition  financially, 
and  in  every  way  is  largely  due  to 
his  able  and  intelligent  assistance  of 
the  public-spirited  gentlemen  who 
have   had    it   in   hanl. 

Mr.  Bundy  has  been  twice  mar- 
ried. The  first  time,  in  1870,  to 
Miss  Belle  Warder,  who  died  June 
29th,  1883,  leaving  two  children. 
Mamie  and  Ben.  His  second  mar- 
riage took  place  April  9,  1SS5,  to 
Miss  Alice  Bevard.  of  Cartevville. 
111.  They  reside  in  the  fine  resi- 
dence on  South  Market  St..  shown 
in  the  halftone.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Gethsemane  Commandery,  No. 
41.  Knights  Templar.  Marion  Chap- 
ter No.  100.  R.  A.  M..  Fellowship 
Lodge  No.  89  A.  F.  &  A.  M..  Wil- 
liamson Lodge  No.  392,  I.  O.  O.  F.. 
and  Marion  Loige  No.  800.  Benevo- 
lent   Order   of   Elks. 


HOGAN  WILLEFORD. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a 
native  of  Marion,  where  he  was 
born  June  11th,  1872.  His  father 
was  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
here  for  some  time,  but  is  at  pres- 
ent postmaster  at  Oluskee.  Okla- 
homa. His  mother  was  Amanda  M. 
Spiller.  After    a    common    school 

education.  Mr.  Willeford  entered  the 
employ  of  John  Cline  in  1S91.  and 
took  up  the  profession  of  druggist. 
He  was  two  years  with  Cline  and 
then    spent    two    years    in    Washing- 


ton, Ind.  After  spending  six  years 
in  Maiden,  Mo.,  he  went  to  Musco- 
gee, Indian  Territory,  for  one  year. 
In  July,  1901,  we  find  him  once 
more  in  Marion,  and  in  partnership 
with  his  brother-in-law,  F.  L.  Mor- 
rison, in  the  bottling  business.  Mr. 
Morrison  had  been  in  the  same  busi- 
ness in  Memphis  and  elsewhere, 
and  Mr.  Willeford  was  an  expert 
druggist,  so  that  the  combination 
was  a  success  from  the  start.  They 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  all 
kinds  of  soft  drinks  and  mineral  wa- 
ters, but  make  a  specialty  of  "Iron 
Brew,  the  Ideal  American  Tonic,"  a 
soft  drink  of  exceptional  value  for 
its  medicinal  properties.  The  first 
year's  output  was  one  hundred 
cases  daily,  and  its  present  capacity 
is  three  hundred  cases.  They  are 
now  building  new  works  on  the  same 
street,  which  will  greatly  increase 
the    output. 

Mr.  Willeford  was  married 
November  15,  1900,  to  Miss  Minnie 
Lee  Price,  daughter  of  Capt.  Ben 
Price,  the  present  Chief  of  Police  of 
Cairo,  111.  He  joined  the  K.  of  P. 
at  Maiden,  Mo.,  and  is  still  a  mem- 
ber of  No.  2  34  there,  also  of  the  K. 
L.  O.  M.  at  Maiden,  and  No.  800  of 
the  Elks  at   Marion. 


T.    S.    MORRISON. 

Is  a  native  of  Greencastle,  Ind., 
where  he  was  born  Jul.v  25,  1869, 
and  where  his  youth  was  spent  in 
acquiring  a  common  school  educa- 
tion. At  the  age  of  fourteen  he 
struck  out  for  himself  and  had  a 
short  experience  as  cow-boy  at  El- 
dorado, Kas.  This  not  being  to  his 
fancy  he  went  into  the  grocery  store 
of  Conkey  &  Orr,  at  Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 
A  little  later  the  spirit  of  adventure 
set  him  to  traveling,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  thirteen  years,  from 
Cairo  to  Texas.  About  five  years 
ago  he  quit  the  road  and  went  into 
the  bottlin.g  business  at  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  with  a  partner  who  was  an 
expert  in  manufacturing  soda  water. 

In  1901  he  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  his  brother-in-law,  Dr. 
Ho.gan  Willeford.  in  the  same  line 
and  are  now  running  a  very  success- 
ful business  in  their  splendid  new 
building  on  the  C.  &  E.  I.  Ry.,  at 
Marion. 

He  was  married  June  12th,  1895, 
to  Miss  Pearl  Price,  of  Cairo.  111.,  by 
whom  he  had  one  child,  Lora  V. 
She  died  December  3,  1901,  and  he 
remarried  July  4,  1903.  to  Miss  Etta 
White,   of   Marion. 


FRANK   M.   GOODALL 


Was  born  in  Williamson  County 
November  5th.  1839,  the  year  Wil- 
liamson became  a  County  separate 
from  Franklin.  He  was  reared  on 
a  farm  and  has  spent  his  life  in  this 
County.  His  parents  were  Joab 
Goodall   and   Nancy   Palmer,  both   of 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON  COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


whom  have  long  since  fallen  asleep. 
He  was  educated  In  Eureka  College, 
and  when  IS  years  old  spent  two 
years  in  California.  On  his  return 
he  raised  one  crop  of  tobacco  which 
netted  him  $1500,  and  thereafter 
during  the  Civil  War  he  devote  1  his 
time  to  the  raising,  manufacturing 
and  dealing  in  the  weed.  Toward 
its  close,  however,  the  price  declined 
and  the  government  tax  and  re- 
strictions discouraged  the  further 
prosecution  of  the  business,  and  in 
company  with  his  brother  John  he 
opened  a  general  store,  in  which  he 
was  engaged  about  six  years.  After 
that  he  began  buying  and  selling 
live  stock,  which  he  followed  suc- 
cessfully for  15  or  20  years.  Since 
then  he  has  done  some  business  in 
real  estate  and  devoted  his  time  and 
attention  to  the  management  of  his 
own  properties.  He  purchased  the 
ground  on  the  northwest  corner  of 
North  Market  street  and  the  public 
square  in  1872  at  a  cost  of  $1,600, 
and  erected  a  substantial  brick, 
which  was  destroyed  by  fire  with  its 
contents  in  1S99.  The  present  fine 
building  was  erected  in  1900  on  the 
ruins  of  the  old.  It  fronts  the  south 
and  is  a  valuable  property.  The 
family  occupies  the  seconi  floor  of 
one-half  of  the  building,  where  they 
have    a    beautiful    home. 

Mr.  Goodall  has  been  a  staunch 
temperance  man  all  his  life,  and 
one  of  the  busiest  and  most  persist- 
ent workers  for  Prohibition  in  the 
state.  His  faith  in  the  efficiency 
and  final  success  of  the  policy  is  un- 
swerving, and  touches  the  sublime. 
His  recognition  by  his  fellow-work- 
ers in  that  field  is  universal  and  ex- 
tends into  adjoining  states.  He  is 
frequently  seen  at  conventions  and 
has  done  much  to  shape  the  public 
policy  of  the  party,  and  was  a  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Convention  held 
at    Indianapolis    in   June,    1904. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Mary  Jane 
Dufiaway,  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
Dunaway  and  Julia  Ann  Tarpley. 
She  was  born  January  3.  IS -1 7.  and 
married  Frank  Goodall  November 
26,  1863.  They  have  had  three  chil- 
dren, but  one  of  whom  is  living. 
This  is  Anna  G.  Reed,  the  wife  of 
Edward  Reed  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Reed  are  practic- 
ing Osteopathic  Physicians  in  Wor- 
cester, and  very  successful  in  their 
chosen  profession.  Both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Goodall  are  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  Christian  Church,  and 
both  belong  to  the  Knights  and  La- 
dies of  Honor.  Mr.  Goodall  is  a 
member  of  the  A.  P.  &  A.  M.,  but 
has  carried  a  demit  for  a  long  time. 
as  age  and  health  forbid  his  attend- 
ance. 


Sheppeid  (now  Mrs.  Chadwell.)  He 
was  born  in  Williamson  County, 
Illinois,  December  26,  1842.  He  at- 
tended the  common  schools  of  his 
County,  but  upon  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Civil  War,  when  he  was  but 
18  years  old,  he  enlisted  as  private 
in  Co.  E,  29th  Regt.  111.  Vol.  Inf. 
August  14,  1861.  He  served  with 
distinction  in  the  battles  of  F't.  I'on- 
elson,  where  he  was  wounded;  Pitts- 
burg Landing,  Holly  Sprin.s<s,  Span- 
ish Fort  and  Fort  Blakeley.  On 
the  1st  of  January,  1S64,  he  re-en- 
listed and  in  December  following 
was  appointed  2r*4  Lieutenant  of  Co. 
E.  and  in  September  after  1st  Lieu- 
tenant, and  Reg.  Quartermaster,  lie 
was  discharged  with  his  regiment 
in   November,    1865. 

I^pon  his  return  home,  in  the 
winter  of  1865,  he  was  appointed 
Deputy  County  Clerk;  was  a  part- 
ner in  the  Lewis  &  Erwen  Co.  in 
18  66,  helped  nurse  the  sick  in  and 
through  the  disastrous  cholera  siege 
in  1866,  and  began  business  near 
Corinth  in  January,  1868.  In  1872 
he  was  appointel  Postmaster  at 
Corinth  and  commissioned  as  Notary 
Public  in  1883.  He  has  remained  in 
business  at  Corinth  and  served  the 
government  as  Postmaster  and  Not- 
ary  Public  ever   since. 

•-'e  is  a  member  of  Corinth  Post 
No.  434,  G.  A.  R.,  also  the  29th 
Regt.  U  V.  U.  In  April,  l.«7:;,  he 
joined  the  I.  O.  O.  F.,  No.  502.  He 
has  been  representative  sevsral 
times  of  Corinth  Lodge  I.  O.  O.  P., 
and  deputy  continuously  for  the 
past   twelve  years. 

He  has  been  married  twice.  His 
first  wife  was  Hannah  Mitchell,  to 
whom  he  was  united  in  February, 
1S6S,  and  by  whom  he  had  two 
children,  Edith  and  William  Page. 
He  was  united  to  Miss  Mollie  Hearne 
in  Miiy,  1877,  by  whom  he  has  three 
children,  Hallie,  Daisy  and  Bertha. 
He  is  a  Methodist  and  a  Republican. 


J.    M.   DODD. 


JOHN  LEANDER   ROBERTS. 


John  Leander  Roberts,  of  Cor 
inth,  Illinois,  was  the  son  of  Wil- 
liam  R.   Roberts     and    Elizabeth   A. 


J.  M.  Dodd  was  born  August  6, 
1859,  near  Galatia.  Like  most  of 
the  men  of  affairs  in  the  nation,  he 
was  reared  on  a  farm  and  attended 
the  common  school.  His  parents, 
however,  gave  him  the  advantage  of 
a  good  training  under  Prof.  Hall  in 
a  select  school  at  Galatia,  and  two 
terms  at  Long  Branch.  He  grad- 
uated at  Galatia  in  1879.  and  took 
up  telegraphy  un'^er  the  station 
agent  at  that  place  soon  after.  Af- 
ter one  year's  practice,  he  took 
charge  of  the  station  at  Thompson- 
ville  on  the  Cairo  Short  Line,  which 
he  kept  for  four  years.  From  there 
he  was  transferred  to  New  Athens, 
where  he  remained  for  another  four 
years  and  then  came  to  Marion.  He 
took  charge  of  the  office  here  on  the 
10th  of  September,  1887.  and  run  it 
for  fifteen  years,  only  leaving  it 
when   he  was  elected   to  his  present 


position  in  November,  19li2.  Pre- 
vious to  his  election  as  county  clerk, 
he  served  as  alderman  of  the  first 
ward  one  term,  from  1900  to  1902. 
In  September,  18S4.  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Susan  Isaacs,  by  whom 
he  has  had  eight  children,  six  of 
whom  are  still  living,  three  boys  and 
three  girls.  He  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  M.  E.  Church  South,  and 
one  of  its  trustees.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member 
of  Marion  Camp  No.  5337  Modern 
Woodmen,  and  Monitor  Lodge  236 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is  Keeper 
of  Records  and  Seals.  In  April, 
19(14.  he  was  elected  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education  in  place  of  W. 
G.  Cock  ran,  whose  term  of  office  had 
expired. 


THOMAS   H.    GAHAGAN. 

Miner. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  a 
Texan  by  birth,  an  Irishman  by  ex- 
traction and  a  miner  by  occupation. 
His  father,  Joseph  Gahagan.  was  a 
native  of  the  North  of  Ireland,  came 
to  A'irginia  when  about  14,  and 
thence  to  Bedford,  Texas,  in  1867. 
He  is  now  living  in  Jack  County, 
Texas.  His  mother's  maiden  name 
was  Mary  Millican,  who  died  in 
November,  1879,  leaving  Thomas, 
the  eldest  and  only  living  member 
of  a  family  of  three  children,  a  boy 
of  ten  years.  He  was  born  on  a 
farm  near  Bedford,  not  far  from  Ft. 
North,  August  25,  1869.  Losing  his 
mother  at  so  tender  an  age,  his 
early  education  was  neglected,  and 
being  in  a  stock  country,  he  tended 
cattle  when  he  should  have  been  at- 
tending school.  He  earned  enough 
money,  however,  working  a  couple 
of  years  for  the  "Diamond  Y"  cattle 
company  to  pay  his  way  for  a  time 
in  the  Fort  North  Schools,  and 
when  it  gave  out.  he  went  into  the 
coal  mines  of  Alabama,  where  he 
'lug  coal  for  about  two  years  and 
two   months. 

Having  saved  a  little  money,  he 
then  took  a  course  in  Telegraphy  at 
the  Old  Seminole  Telegraphic  Col- 
lege, under  the  tutelage  of  Prof. 
Jordan.  After  the  usual  main-line 
practice  which  he  took  at  Jackson, 
Miss.,  on  the  Illinois  Central  road, 
he  was  assigned  to  Lilly,  a  new  sta- 
tion on  the  Frisco  just  out  of  Ft. 
Smith.  But  he  didn't  take  kindly 
to  "tickets."  and  after  three  months' 
experience  at  Lilly,  we  find  him  back 
again  in  the  mines  of  Alabama. 
Since  then  he  has  followed  coal  dig- 
ging, visiting  and  working  in  the 
mines  of  Cambria  and  Deitz,  Wy., 
and  Boonville,  Ind.  He  also  roamed 
about  in  various  towns  and  cities  of 
Colorado.  Montana  and  Washington 
until  June  16th,  1904,  when  he 
struck  Marion  and  went  to  work  for 
the  Carterville  District  Mine,  where 
he   is  still  employed. 

He   has      always    been     prominent 


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and  active  in  labor  circles,  putting 
into  it  all  the  energy  and  enthusi- 
asm characteristic  of  his  race.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  United  Mine- 
workers  of  America,  and  was  a  par- 
ticipant and  familiar  with  the  labor 
troubles  at  Deitz,  Wy..  and  in  Colo- 
rado. Of  course,  he  insists  upon 
the  correctness  of  the  miners'  posi- 
tion, and  their  construction  of  the 
untoward  events  happening  in  that 
region.  Soon  after  reaching  Ma- 
rion he  was  admitted  by  transfer 
card  to  local  council  No.  2216,  of 
which  he  has  proved  himself  a 
worthy  and  well-posted  member.  In 
September  he  was  chosen  its  Vice 
President,  and  in  December  became 
its  President  by  a  unanimous  vote, 
which  office  he  still  holds,  and  is 
held  in  high  esteem  by  its  mem- 
bers. In  January  of  this  year  he 
was  chosen  delegate  to  the  Marion 
Trades  Council,  which  office  he  now 
holds,  and  has  won  the  respect  of 
every  representative  of  that  body. 
He  is  a  member  of  Mayview  Lodge 
No.  309,  of  the  K.  P.,  Mayview.  Mo. 
As  evidence  of  his  business  ability, 
he  holds  three  certificates  of  profi- 
ciency as  foreman  of  mines  from 
the  State  of  Missouri,  and  stands 
first  in  his  class  where  now  em- 
ployed. 


DeWITT  CLINTON  SMITH, 
Real   Estate  and   Insurance. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  near  Round  Knob,  Massac  Co., 
lU..  September  26,  1S53.  His  pa- 
rents came  from  Warren  Countv. 
Tennessee,  in  18  50.  They  first  set- 
tled in  Massac  County,  111.,  but  re- 
moved to  Saline  Co.  in  18  61.  where 
they  lived  until  1876.  His  father, 
Thomas  Smith,  went  to  Florida  in 
1S76  for  his  health,  but  died  down 
there  in  April.  1877,  and  his  moth- 
er, Narcissa  .lane  May  died  in  Decem- 
ber. 1866,  in  Saline  County,  111.  Of 
their  family  there  survives  two  sons 
and      one    daughter.  The     family 

moved  from  Massac  to  Saline  Coun- 
ty in  1861,  and  settled  at  Stone 
Fort,  where  they  run  a  General  Mer- 
chandise store  until  the  death  of  the 
father  in  Florida  in  1877.  DeWitt 
attended  the  public  school  until 
about  1*5  years  old.  assisting  his 
father  in  the  store  when  not  in 
school.  After  the  death  of  his 
father,  he  ran  the  store  for  a  few 
years  on  his  own  account,  and  then 
went  into  the  hotel  business  at 
Stone  Fort  for  six  years.  After  he 
sold  out  that  property  in  1866  he 
moved  to  Cairo,  Illinois,  where  he 
remained  one  year,  and  then  moved 
fo  Creal  Springs,  where  he  remained 
four  years,  engaged  in  railroading 
and  other  pursuits  until  TSDl.  when 
he  got  employment  as  nnrFic  in  the 
Insane  Hospital  at  Ann^i,  Illinois, 
and  for  about  six  y^ars  was  engaged 
in  that  occupation  in  Illinois,  Little 
Rock,     Arkansas,      and     at      Austin, 


Te.xas.  In  1S99  he  opened  a  Real 
Estate  and  Insurance  bu.smess  in  the 
law  office  of  his  brother,  ,1  C.  B. 
Smith,  and  has  been  active  iind  suc- 
cessful in  that  line  and  in  liiroc; in?, 
Iiromoting  and  managing  the  imigra- 
tion  business  to  the  South wesr  till 
the  present  time  for  the  Southern 
Pacific.  Frisco  System  and  Cotton 
Belt   Railroad  companies. 

He  became  assistant  secretary  of 
the  Marion  Building  and  Loan  As- 
sociation in  1899  in  connection  with 
his  Real  Estate  business,  which  po- 
sition   he   still   holds. 

He  was  married  December  13. 
1876,  to  Miss  Mattie  Campbell,  of 
this  County,  of  whom  he  has  had 
three  children,  Minnie  Lee,  now  the 
wife  of  ,John  R.  Sullinger,  who  lives 
at  Willow  Springs,  Mo.:  Cecil  Clyde 
Smith,  who  married  Ella  Hall,  of 
St.  Louis,  and  resides  in  that  city, 
and  Ada  Blanche,  the  wife  of  Ford 
Piatt,  who  resides  at  Lansing,  Mich. 
-Mr.  Smith  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Missionary  Baptist  church  since 
1886,  a  member  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M. 
since  18  78  and  is  now  serving  his 
second  term  as  treasurer  of  Fellow- 
ship  Lodge  No.    89. 


are  living,  Olive,  John  and  Veda. 
Mr.  Dodd  belongs  to  the  A.  O.  U.  W., 
M.  W.  of  A.  and  the  K.  P.  He  and 
his  wife  are  both  members  of  the 
Free    Baptist    church   of   Marion. 


ZOLI.A    A.   DODD. 

.\nierican    Express    Agent. 


Was  born  in  Galatia.  Saline  Co.. 
111.,  about  one  mile  north  of  town. 
October  29,  1871.  His  father,  Al- 
fred Dodd,  is  still  living  at  the  age 
of '72,  on  the  old  homestead  farm, 
but  his  mother,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Elizabeth  Bales,  died 
February  23,  1873.  His  early  years 
were  spent  on  the  farm  and  at  the 
common  district  school,  with  a  brief 
time  at  the  High  School  in  Marion, 
about  1884.  At  the  age  of  20  he 
left  school  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Co.. 
under  the  tutelage  of  his  brother. 
John  M.  Dod-i,  who  for  many  years 
was   station    agent    in    Marion. 

Having  previously  mastered  tel- 
egraphy, he  was  made  assistant 
agent  and  operator  to  his  brother, 
which  position  he  continued  to  fill 
for  two  years  and  a  half.  Then  for 
about  six  months  he  was  what  is 
known  technically  as  Relief  Agent 
and  Operator,  that  i'^,  he  worked 
anywhere  he  might  be  sent  on 
emergency,  relieving  other  agents 
who  were  for  any  cause  called  away 
from  their  homes.  After  a  short 
service  at  Mulkevtown.  about  thir- 
teen and  a  half  months,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Railway  and  .\merican  Ex- 
press Agent  at  Thompsonville.  in 
the  edge  of  Franklin  County,  where 
he  staid  for  five  yea-'s,  meanwhile 
taking  to  himself  a  business  part- 
ner and  wife.  Her  name  was  Anna 
Peebles,  the  daughter  of  John  W. 
Peebles,  Attorney  at  Law  in  Marion, 
an"  their  marriage  took  place  Sep- 
tember 8.  1895.  Of  this  union  four 
children   were  born,   of   whom   three 


HON.    JOHN   H.    DUNCAN, 
States   Prison  Commissioner. 

J.  H.  Duncan  is  a  Kentuckian  by 
birth,  and  the  son  of  a  Kentuckian. 
His  father  was  Captain  Samuel 
Duncan,  of  Co.  A,  loth  Kentucky 
Cavalry,  who  died  September  25, 
1867,  at  New  Burnside,  111.,  at  the 
early  age  of  forty-eight.  His  moth- 
er was  Ruhama  Frizzell.  She  died 
July  7,  1892.  The  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  born  June  27,  1858,  in 
Benton,  Ky.,  and  moved  with  his 
parents  to  Franklin  county,  Illinois, 
in  1865  and  settled  where  Herrin 
now  stands,  then  known  as  Herrin's 
Prairie.  After  teaching  in  his  own 
neighborhod  a  couple  of  years,  he 
spent  two  years  in  Shurtleff  College, 
Upper  Alton,  111.,  sawing  wood  and 
doing  chores  for  his  board.  After 
leaving  college  he  was  elected  Prin- 
cipal of  Carterville  High  School  in 
the  fall  of  1881,  where  he  served 
for  three  years.  In  the  meantime, 
he  was  elected  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  and  re-elected  in 
1886,  by  the  largest  majority  ever 
cast  for  a  Republican  candidate  up 
to  that  time.  After  two  full  terms 
— eight  years — as  superintendent  of 
Schools,  he  was  elected  to  the  Legis- 
lature in  1890  and  re-elected  in 
1892.  During  his  administration  of 
the  public  schools  as  superintend- 
ent, he  established  an  educational 
journal  known  as  "Our  Public 
Schools,"  also  "The  Marion  Lead- 
er," which  is  the  official  organ  of 
the  Republican  party  in  Marion  and 
the  County  of  Williamson.  At  the 
close  of  his  last  term  in  the  Legisla- 
ture, he  accepted  a  position  as  trav- 
eling salesman  for  the  Simmons 
Hardware  Company  of  St.  Louis, 
and  remained  on  the  road  for  them 
until  1900,  when  he  returned  to  ac- 
cept his  present  position. 

He  first  entered  into  the  hardware 
business  here  in  the  spring  of  189  7, 
but  on  leaving  the  road,  assisted  in 
organizing  the  Duncan  and  Baker 
Hardware  Company.  It  is  a  cor- 
poration, of  which  he  is  the  presi- 
dent, with  $30,000  capital  and  a 
branch  at  Johnson  City.  In  April, 
1901,  he  was  appointed  by  Gov. 
Yates  one  of  the  commissioners  of 
the  Southern  Illinois  Penitentiary  at 
Chester,  and  afterwards  elected  by 
the  Board  as  its  president,  which  of- 
fice he  still  holds. 

In  August  26,  1883,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Spiller, 
daughter  of  W.  J.  Spiller,  by  whom 
he  has  had  three  children,  Nettie 
and  Willie,  both  of  whom  are  de- 
ceased, and  Rose,  now  Mrs.  F.  G. 
Campbell,    who    lives    in    an   elegant 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


new  home  near  her  parents.  He  Is 
an  elder  of  the  Christian  church  and 
a  member  of  the  A.  F.  ani  A  .M. 

ALEXANDER   HUNT,   Pioneer. 


Is  the  son  of  Abel  Hunt  and 
Elizabeth  Bell,  natives  of  Tennes- 
see, who  lived  to  an  advanced  age 
among  the  mountains  of  Smith  Co., 
where  Alexander  was  born. 

He  was  raised  in  his  native  state 
and  did  not  come  to  Illinois  until 
1885.  His  first  wife  was  Martha 
Parthel,  to  whom  he  was  united  in 
Tennessee,  August  1,  1842.  She 
gave  birth  to  three  children  and 
died  May  7th,  1896,  in  Lawrence 
County,  niinois,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  87.  None  of  her  children 
survive.  His  second  marriage  took 
place  August  15th.  1897,  to  Mrs. 
Martha  Caroline  Cuttrel.  widow  of 
William  Cuttrel.  They  are  members 
of  the  United  Missionary  Baptist 
church,  who  have  a  house  of  wor- 
ship five  miles  east  of  Marion,  near 
their  place  of  residence. 


O.   G.   CAMPBELL,   Pioneer. 


Is  a  native  of  Williamson  County, 
and  has  spent  his  whole  life  within 
its  borders.  He  is  a  son  of  Cyrus 
Campbell,  and  was  born  January  2  4, 
1831.  He  was  raised  on  a  farm  and 
has  spent  his  life  in  farming  and 
raising  and  dealing  in  live  stock  or 
other  products  of  the  soil.  At  one 
time  he  dealt  largely  in  cotton  and 
tobacco,  and  during  the  war  he  was 
engaged  in  furnishing  the  army 
with  horses  and  mules.  On  the  21st 
of  June,  1851,  he  married  Miss  Sid- 
ney Stewart,  by  whom  he  had  five 
children.  Two  only  survive.  Cyrus 
and  Arthur.  His  wife  died  Decem- 
ber 24.  1895.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  M.  E.  church  south  and  a  Demo- 
crat. 


WYATT    C.    FERRELL, 
Pioneer. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  Smith  County.  Tennessee, 
June  25.  1829.  His  father  was  Wil- 
liam Perrell,  a  soldier  in  the  war 
of  1812,  and  fought  under  Jackson 
at  the  Battle  of  New  Orleans.  IIo 
dies  in  March,  1S67.  His  grandfa- 
ther was  an  Englishman,  and  fought 
under  Cornwallis  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War.  In  August,  1862,  Wyatt 
enlisted  in  the  128th.  111.  as  First 
Sergeant,  from  which  he  was  trans- 
ferred in  the  Spring  of  1863  to  the 
9th.  111.,  where  his  regiment  soon 
redeemed  the  unfortunate  record  of 
the  "Bloody  128th."  He  fought 
during  the  whole  period  of  the  war 
and  was  mustered  out  at  Louisville, 
Ky.,  July  9,  1865.  He  was  made 
Captain  of  his  company  in  1864,  and 
served   as    such    until    mustered    out. 

He  moved  with  his  parents  from 
Tennessee  to  Williamson  County  and 


settled  near  Sarahsville  October  30, 
1839.  Until  the  war  he  followed 
farming,  but  after  its  close,  went  to 
St.  Louis  and  learned  the  trade  of 
gunsmith,  which  he  followed  for 
more  than  4  5  years,  and  until  his 
failing   eyesight   prevented. 

His  first  wife  was  Sarah  Jane 
Blackman,  to  whom  he  was  mar- 
ried June  8,  1848.  By  her  he  had 
three  children,  two  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing: Ezra  and  John,  both  living  in 
Saline  County.  His  second  mar- 
riage took  place  November  2,  1864, 
to  Emmeline  Edrington,  by  whom 
three  children  were  born.  They 
were  Franklin  M..  now  in  Johnson 
County:  Mrs.  Emma  Adams,  and 
Mrs.  Martha  Francis.  His  second 
wife  died  April  25,  1891,  and  he 
took  for  his  third  wife  Elvira  Reid, 
October  15,  1S96.  One  child. 
Claud,  now  seven  years  old.  is  the 
fruit    of   this   union. 


JAMES    M.    GENT, 
Farmer    and    Dealer    in    Live    Stock. 


This  gentleman  was  born  at  Spil- 
lertown  April  26,  1862.  His  father 
was  D.  A.  S.  Gent,  who  was  in  turn 
farmer,  coal  dealer  and  store-keep- 
er, and  died  October  17,  1884.  His 
mother  was  Susan  Spiller.  through 
whom  Mr.  Gent  is  connected  with 
the  most  of  the  prominent  families 
of  Marion.  She  died  December  2  2, 
1885,  a  little  more  than  a  year  later 
than  her  husband.  The  elder  Gent 
moved  his  family  to  Carbondale 
when  James,  who  was  his  second 
chil''.  was  an  infant,  and  kept  a 
general  merchandise  store  for  about 
fifteen  years,  when  he  returned  to 
his  farm  and  coal  mines  at  Spiller- 
town  when  James  was  15  years  old. 
James  lived  at  home  with  his  pa- 
rents, assisting  on  the  farm  and  in 
the  mines,  until  after  their  death. 
He  and  his  four  sisters  remained  on 
the  old  homestead  until  his  mar- 
riage three  years  later.  This  took 
place  October  25.  1S8S.  to  Miss  Belle 
Holland,  daughter  of  Bazzel  Hol- 
land.    They  have  no  children. 

Mr.  Gent  received  a  common 
school  education  mostly  at  Carbon- 
dale.  He  has  followed  farming 
and  stock  raising  until  August  of 
last  year,  when  he  bought  the  Otis 
Williams  place  and  moved  into  Ma- 
rion. He  still  retains  his  old  home 
in  Northern  Precinct,  near  Corinth, 
but  is  gradually  devoting  more  at- 
tention to  buying  and  selling  live 
stock.  He  is  enterprising  and  am- 
bitious, and  not  averse  to  investing 
in  a  good  thing  when  he  sees  it.  He 
is  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Crab 
Orchard  Telephone  Comapny  and  is 
its  president.  He  is  also  a  director 
in  the  Williamson  County  Agricul- 
tural Association,  and  at  the  last 
election  of  officers  of  the  Williamson 
County  Savings  Bank  was  elected  a 
director  in  it.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  belongs  to  the  Farm- 


ers' Relief  Association  at  Attila,  in 
the  eastern  part  of  this  county.  He 
is  not  a  member  of  any  church,  but 
Mrs.  Gent  belongs  to  the  M.  E. 
church    at    Corinth. 


ROBERT   C.  NALL  AND  OSCAR   M. 
WILLIAMS. 


R.  C.  Nail  and  O.  M.  Williams 
formed  a  co-partnership  in  1903, 
since  when  they  have  erected  the 
following  fine  buildings:  New  Hyde 
Block  on  North  Market  St.:  the  fine 
brick  store  of  Henry  Brown  on  W. 
Main  St.,  corner  of  Lilly  curve;  Ma- 
rion Pressed  Brick  and  Tile  Com- 
pany Works:  the  residence  of  S.  H. 
Goodall  on  the  southeast  corner  of 
North  Market  St.  and  the  Boulevard: 
Newton  Cripps,  on  South  Market 
St.:  Marion  Bottling  Company's 
fine  new  brick  building:  residence  of 
J.  C.  Knight,  in  East  Marion,  and 
James  Pelts'  residence,  also  in  East 
Marion.  This  is  a  remarkable 
showing  for  the  time  spent,  and 
places  them  in  the  very  front  rank 
among  the  builders  of  the  city.  A 
glance  at  the  halftone  illustrations 
which  adorn  these  pages  will  amply 
justify  their  high  standing  in  their 
profession  in  the  good  opinions  of 
the  owners. 

EDGAR  E.   GILL. 


Edgar  E.  Gill,  a  native  of  this 
County,  is  one  of  its  most  talented 
and  successful  builders,  and  young 
enough  to  give  promise  of  reaching 
the  top  of  the  ladder  in  his  noble 
profession.  He  began  working  at 
the  carpenter's  trade  early,  and  in 
1897  formed  a  partnership  with 
Robert  H.  Pride,  which  still  contin- 
ues. Four  years  ago  his  practical 
knowledge  of  the  craft  was  supple- 
mented by  a  full  course  in  architec- 
ture, in  the  International  Corre- 
spondence Schools  of  Scranton,  Pa. 
Many  of  the  best  buildings  of  the 
city  are  demonstrations  of  his  tal- 
ent as  an  architect,  he  having  drawn 
the  plans  for  the  following  among 
others  erected  by  himself  and  part- 
ner: the  Denison.  Goodall,  Marion 
State  and  Savings  Bank,  over  which 
is  the  City  Hall:  Benson  Cline  and 
Jones,  New  Goodall  Bldg.,  and  the 
New  School  buildings.  He  was  the 
foreman  of  the  Irish  Village  at  the 
Exposition  at  St.  Louis,  spending 
the  entire  summer  there.  December 
27,  1892,  he  married  Miss  Sallie 
Feator,  by  whom  he  has  had  three 
boys  and  one  girl.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  M.  E.  Church  South,  and  un- 
til lately,  one  of  it  official  board, 
from  which  he  recently  resigned. 
While  a  Republican  in  politics,  he 
has  never  "had  a  bee  in  his  bonnet," 
and  has  never  run  for  office.  He  be- 
longs to  Williamson  Lo^ge  No.  392, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  the  Blue  Lodge  of 
the    Masons. 


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145 


THE  ELLES    STORE  COMPANY. 


lentiuy  this  Company  has  made  a 
study  of  the  needs  of  the  community, 
and  being  large  buyers  are  in  a  po- 
sition to  supply  almost  everything 
needed  to  wear  or  consume  at  a  uni- 
formly low  price. 

ED.  A.  ELLES 
The  present  President  of  the  El- 
les  Store  Co.,  has  been  associated 
with  his  brother,  A.  K.  EUes,  for 
many  years,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Elles  Bros.,  and  later  as  the  EUes 
Store  Co.  On  the  occasion  of  A.  K. 
Elles  moving  from  the  town,  Mr.  Ed. 
A.  Elles  was  elected  President, 
which  office  he  has  held  ever  since. 


Xo.  1.     Is  the  original  building  in  which  the  now   extensive   business 

of  the  Company  originated.     The  floor  space  was  20x40  feet  or  800 

sciuare  feet,  which  has  increased  to  more  than  4-0,000  square  feet  and 

gives  employment  to  scores  of  helpers. 


MR.  A.  K.  ELLES 
The  Vice  President  of  the  Elles 
Store  Co.  and  the  real  founler  of  the 
business,  has  been  part  of  Carter- 
ville  almost  since  the  birth  of  the 
town.  During  all  this  time  his  faith 
in  the  final  prosperity  of  Carterville 
has  never  wavered.  He  commenced 
the  business  in  a  very  humble  way, 
but  under  his  management  the  busi- 
ness has  grown,  fully  keeping  pace 
with  the  marvelous  growth  of  this 
favored  County  until  now  it  stands 
perhaps  second  to  none  in  this  coal 
district. 


KI,I>KS  STOUK  CO.MI'AW. 


In  1S7S,  when  Carterville  was  in 
its  infancy,  forests  stooi  where  now 
elegant  brick  structures  adorn  the 
street,  and  only  one  small  mine  in 
this  vicinity,  where  now  they  can  be 
counted  by  the  dozens,  Albert  K.  El- 
les and  Ed  A.  Elles  formed  the  co- 
partnership known  for  years  as  Elles 
Bros.  Their  stock  then  consisted 
only  of  a  small  quantity  of  mer- 
chandise, and  their  building  was  a 
one-story  frame  structure  of  20x40 
feet,  w'hich  can  be  seen  in  view  one. 
In  this  building  the  business  was 
conducted  for  years.  In  1SS.5  the 
first  large  addition  was  made  to  their 
now  fast  growing  business.  The  ad- 
dition consisted  of  two  buildings, 
one  of  2  5x.5  0  feet  two  story,  one  of 
2-1X.50  feet,  one  story,  increasing 
their  floor  space  3700  square  feet, 
nearly  five  times  the  amount  of  the 
original  building.  The  co-partner- 
ship continued  up  to  1S91,  when  the 
incorporation  of  Elles  Store  Co.  was 
formed  by  the  addition  of  new  mem- 
bers to  the  company.  In  1S93  this 
company  made  another  move  toward 
the  accommodation  of  their  now 
large  business  by  the  erection  of  a 
brick  building  of  60x140  feet,  with 
an  addition  of  62x110  feet,  with  a 
total  area  of  22040  square  feet,  and 
then  embodied  almost  the  first  coun- 
try department  store  in  this  section 
of  the  State. 

In  1S9S  another  venture  was 
made,  which  consisted  of  the  Herrin 
Store.      This   has   developed   from    a 


small  business  until  now  it  holds  its 
parent  business  a  strong  secoud.  In 
1900  the  Lauder  (now  Reeves) 
Brapch  was  opened,  in  1901  the  Ma- 
rion Branch  ani  in  190  2  the  White 
Ash  Branch.  It  now  takes  a  tloor 
space  of  more  than  36,000  square 
feet  to  accommodate  their  business. 
The  business  was  built  primarily 
upon  the  solid  foundation  of  Reli- 
able Merchandise  and  .lust  Meth- 
ods.     For   more   than  a   quarter  of  a 


MR.  ARTHUR  BAKER 
The  present  Secretary  of  the  Elles 
Store  Co.,  has  been  connected  with 
this  Company  since  leaving  the  Car- 
terville public  schools,  some  five 
years  ago.  He  commenced  in  cleri- 
cal office  work,  and  such  was  his 
aptitude  for  figures,  his  painstaking 
care  in  handling  accounts,  that  he 
soon  won  the  confidence  of  both  cus- 
tomers  and   his   co-workers,    and    to- 


Xo.  2.     Erected  in  1885  and  used  for  eight  years.     This  building  wit- 
nessed the  transformation  of  the  Biles  Brothers  business  into  a  strong 
incorporated  company.    The  large  building  shown  in  the  rear  is  now- 
used  as  the  Companies'  Carterville  barn. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


No.  3.     This  half-tone  shows  the  present  building   in    Cartervilie   un- 
der construction,  while  the  business  is  going  on  uninterruptedly.  The 
north  half  was  built  first  and  boarded  up;  business  going   on   while 
the  south  half  was  erected. 


cUi.v   he  is  regarded  almo.st   infallible 
by  those  who  know  his  work. 


MR.    ROBERT   HOPPER 

Present  Manager  of  the  Grocery 
Department  at  the  Herrin  Store,  has 
been  identified  with  the  business 
some  18  years,  coming  as  a  small 
boy  he  has  steadily  forged  his  way 
forward,  each  year  assuming  a  more 
and  more  responsible  place  until  to- 
day his  department  stands  easily 
first  in  the  business.        His  splendid 


memory,  high  business  integrity  and 
conscientious  application  to  business 
have  won  him   hosts  of  friends. 

MR.  G.  W.  BEVARDE 
Has  been  with  the  EUes  Store  Co. 
some  thirteen  years,  first  as  an  out- 
side salesman,  then  a  house  sales- 
man, and  for  the  last  five  years,  as 
collector  and  Judge  of  credits,  which 
delicate  and  important  position  he 
has  faithfully  filled  to  the  satisfac- 
tion   of   all   concerne  \ 


C.  E.  AXDERSON,  Herrin,  111. 

Director  and  Manager  of  the  Her- 
rin Branch  of  the  EUes  Store  Co., 
was  born  January  13,  1877,  at 
Raum,  Pope  Co..  111.,  attended  the 
pul)lic  school  at  Cartervilie  and 
graduated  from  the  scientific  course 
at  the  Northern  Indiana  Normal 
School  in  1897.  He  enlisted  for  the 
war  with  Spain  in  the  4th  111.  Vol., 
Co.  C,  and  went  to  Havana,  but 
never  saw  actual  service  in  the  field 
and  was  mustered  out  May  2,  1899. 
He  entered  the  service  of  the  Elles 
Store  Co.  February  21,  19  01,  and 
was  rapidly  promoted  to  his  present 
position. 

He  was  married  September  25, 
19(Mi.  to  Miss  Bertha  Perry,  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Perry,  of  Car- 
tervilie, by  whom  he  has  one  child, 
Edward.  2  1-2   years  old. 

Mr.  Anderson  has  a  natural  apti- 
tude for  business,  and  is  particularly 
skillful  in  the  management  of  the 
interests  committed  to  his  care. 

This  little  history  of  the  Elles 
Store  Co.  would  not  be  complete  if 
we  failed  to  speak  of  the  work  of 
two  members  of  the  board  of  di- 
rectors who  have  passed  away,  Mr. 
Charles  P.  Elles  and  Mr.  Louis  T. 
Elles,  who,  though  gone,  have  left 
an  indellible  impression  for  good  in 
the  business. 


W.  ROBERTSON.   Pioneer. 


M.  W.  Robertson  is  the  son  of 
Henry  Robertson  and  Mary  Spiller, 
the     daughter     of     William     Spiller. 


No.  4.     Shows  the  Cartervilie  main  store  as  it  now  stands  in  1905. 


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147 


Sr.~i3Ba   =- 


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No.  5.     Is  the  Ijranch  at  Herrin  in  1899. 


They  finally  settled  in  Marion,  where 
the  father  died  in  1S45  and  the 
mother  in  1.S54.  Martin  W.  was 
born,  on  Phelps'  Prairie  July  18th, 
1840.  His  early  life  was  spent  on 
Ihe  farm,  but  later  on  he  went  into 
the  dry  goods  business  at  Marion, 
which  he  ran  until  1869.  He  then 
sold  out  and  established  the  first 
hardware  store  in  Marion.  He  was 
a  2nd  Lieutenant  of  the  "Bloody 
128"  111.,  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a 
Democrat  and  a  member  of  the 
Christian  Church.  His  wife  was 
Malvina.      daughter   of    Samuel     and 


.Julia  A.  Dunaway,  to  whom  he  was 
united  .January  21,  1866.  She  was 
born  August  11,  1846.  Her  children 
are  Mrs.  Ettie  E.  Browning,  wife  of 
Thos.  S.  Browning,  of  Benton,  JU.: 
Samuel  Henry  Robertson  and  John 
D.   Robertson,  who  died  in   1899. 


ROBERT    H.     PRJDE, 

Pride  &  Gill,  Carpenters,  Contractors 

and  Builders. 


■Js  a  native  and  almost  continu- 
ously a  resident  of  Marion.  A  slight 
attention  to  the  incidents  of  his  life 


will  justify  the  estimate  put  upon 
him  and  his  worthy  luother  by  their 
intimate  friends,  when  they  affirm 
that,  rich  or  poor,  the  County  does 
not  contain  a  citizen  more  worthy  of 
the  honor  and  esteem  of  his  fellow 
citizens.  He  was  born  here  October 
24.  1SG4.  His  father  was  a  native 
of  Tennessee,  but  came  to  Marion 
when  only  21.  He  was  a  carpenter, 
and  Robert  worked  under  him  at  the 
trade  and  on  a  farm  until  about  12 
years  ol1.  He  was  the  oldest  of  six 
children,  and  upon  the  death  of  his 
father  when  he  was  but  14,  the  sup- 
port of  the  family  devolved  largely 
upon  himself.  Guided  and  assisted 
by  his  mother,  the  two  reared  and 
educated  the  family  without  more 
help  from  others  than  is  contained 
in  a  kind  word  occasionally.  He  is 
entirely  a  self-made  man.  anl  has 
no  cause  to  be  ashamed  of  his  work 
either. 

For  about  three  years  he  and  his 
present  partner  worked  under  the 
instruction  of  Isaac  Rapp.  perhaps 
the  most  successful  builder  in  South- 
ern Illinois.  They  helped  him  erect 
the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  Univer- 
sity at  Carbondale.  the  Logan  Home 
at  Murphysboro  and  many  other 
prominent  buildings.  In  1897,  he 
and  Gill,  after  working  together 
pleasantly  for  some  years,  formed  a 
co-partnership,  which  continues  to 
the  present  time.  Together  tJiey 
have  built  nearly  all  the  fine  build- 
ings around  the  public  square,  the 
new  school  building  and  others  In 
various  parts  of  the  city. 

His  school-days  were  few.  but  his 
schooling    is    continuous,    and    he    is 


No.  6. 


Is  the  Herrin  Branch  as  completed  in  1900.     New  improvements  and  additions  have  been  made  and 
others  are  in  contemplation. 


148 


SOUV'ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


No.  7.     EUes  Store  Company,  Lauder  Branch. 


still  a  diligent  student.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat,  a  member  of  the 
M.  E.  Church  South,  and  tor  about 
eleven  years  now  a  member  of  Fel- 
lowship Lodge  No.   S9,  Odd  Fellows. 


stayed  with  them  a  year  and  then 
spent  the  following  year  in  the  stores 
of  Westbrook  and  Cook,  James  T. 
Goddard,  and  Goodall  and  Campbell. 


He  then  opened  a  restaurant  near 
where  Mr.  Burkhardt  now  has  his 
store,  and  went  into  bu.siness  for 
l-.imself.  In  1S60  he  rented  a  place 
of  Samuel  Dunaway,  and  in  company 
with  the  Hon.  J.  M.  Washburn, 
opened  the  first  grocery  store  start- 
ed on  the  south  side  of  the  square. 
Two  years  after  they  took  another 
I)artner,  Dr.  Lodge,  a  druggist,  and 
Ijought  from  Isaac  Lewis  the  corner 
where  Bundy's  store  now  stands. 
They  then  united  the  drug  and  gro- 
cery business.  About  a  year  later 
they  bought  out  Dr.  Lodge  and  in 
INGo  or  '66  Mr.  Sparks  sold  his 
share  to  Washburn.  About  this  time 
he  moved  to  Carterville,  bought  an 
adoining  farm,  built  a  store,  and 
went  to  farming  and  selling  goods 
on  his  own  individual  account.  In 
1S72  he  sold  his  farm  and  store  in 
Carterville  and  returned  to  Marion, 
where  he  went  into  the  grocery  bus- 
iness with  Hundley  and  Holland, 
where  Mr.  Cantor's  store  now 
stands.  Two  years  later  he  soil  out 
to  his  partner,  and  went  to  work  for 
Thomas  Dunaway  in  the  general 
merchandise  business  at  the  old 
stand,  w-here  he  remained,  however, 
but  a   year,   when  he  went  to  clerk- 


FRANCIS   MARION   SPARKS, 


Mr.  Sparks  boasts  of  being  the 
first  child  born  in  Marion,  where  he 
saw  the  light  of  day  April  21,  lS4ti. 
and  where  the  major  part  of  his  life 
so  far  has  been  spent.  He  was  the 
son  of  J.  G.  Sparks,  whose  portrait 
and  sketch  appear  in  this  book,  and 
now  resides  with  his  wife,  Mrs. 
Mary  J.  Sparks,  the  talentel  poet- 
ess, whose  portrait  accompanies  an 
original  poem  found  on  these  pages. 
They  and  their  four  boys,  Benjamin. 
Bert,  Guinn  and  Harry,  occupy  a 
handsome  home  on  West  Main  St. 
Mr.  Sparks  was  but  a  boy  of  twelve 
when  his  father  went  to  California, 
and  as  the  father  never  again  made 
his  home  in  Illinois,  the  boy  was 
reared  by  his  mother  and  Isaac  and 
Celinda  McCoy,  the  grandparents  of 
Mrs.    Sparks,    his    wife.  His    first 

term  of  school  was  under  the  in- 
struction of  Samuel  Xowlin  in  the 
summer  of  1S.53,  where  he  spent 
three      months.  Later      on,     nine 

months  under  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCoy 
completed  his  direct  schooling.  It 
is  proper  to  state,  however,  that  he 
lived  for  three  years  in  the  family 
of  his  wife's  grandparents,  and  had 
the  benefit  of  almost  continuous 
course  of  instruction  quite  equal  to 
that  of  an  academy  during  that 
whole  period.  So  that  it  may  be 
said  that  his  schooling  was  of  a 
very  uncommon  Common-school 
sort,  and  gave  him  a  very  good  prac- 
tical education.  In  August,  1S55. 
when  but  fifteen  years  old,  he  began 
clerking  in  the  general  merchandise 
store  of   Hundley   and   Campbell.   He 


No.  8.  Marion  Branch  of  the  Elles  Store  Cuuiijany  locatnl  uii  the 
east  side  of  the  public  square,  southeast  corner  of  East  Main  Street, 
Marion,  111.  The  Xew  Gootlall  Hotel  occupies  the  tipper  stories  of 
the  block.  The  g;rocery  store  of  Campbell  Bros,  is  shown  at  the 
right.  The  personell  of  the  employes  of  the  Company  is  as  follows, 
counting  from  left  to  right:  E.  D.  Roach,  General  Manager;  Ira 
Davis.  Charles  Davis,  Dry  Goods  Dept.;  Ruth  Jackson,  Office  Clerk; 
Florence  Woodley,  same;  Ella  Hill,  Dry  Goods  Dept.;  Mary  Johtison, 
(Jueensv\'are;  Ira  Cash,  Grocery  Dept.;  T.  F.  McCartney,  Grocery 
Dept.;  O.  C.  Simmons,  Grocery  Dept.;  Harry  Roach. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


149 


about  four  miles  north  of  Marion. 
His  scliool  days  closed  with  two 
terms  at  Valparaiso,  Ind.  He  then 
entered  upon  the  profession  of 
teaching,  which  he  followed  in  the 
common  schools  of  the  County  for 
ten  years,  closing  189  4.  In  the  tall 
of  that  year  he  was  elected  Coutity 
Clerk  on  the  Republican  ticket  a^nd 
re-elected  In  IS 9 8.  In  1903  he  en- 
tered into  partnership  with  B.  F. 
Baker,  erected  a  fine  brick  building 
on  a  part  of  block  14,  at  the  north- 
west corner  of  the  public  square, 
and  opened  a  book  and  stationary 
store  September  1,  19":!.  He  -^as 
married  N'ovember  G.  189.j,  to  Miss 
Stella  Sanders,  by  whom  he  has  one 
boy.  He  belongs  to  Modern  Wood- 
man  Camp   .5337. 


•JAMES   V.   GRIDER. 


No.  9.     Whitcash  Branch  of  the  Elles  Store  Company. 


ing  for  W.  \V.  Robinson,  .lanuary  1, 
1879.  hater  they  went  into  part- 
nership, and  for  six  years  were  rais- 
ing and  dealing  in  live  stock  of  all 
kinds.  He  then  bought  a  farm  of 
two  hundred  and  forty  acres,  about 
three  miles  west  of  New  Burnside, 
Johnson  County,  which  he  sold  after 
about  three  years,  and  returned  to 
Marion  in  1889.  He  then  sold  hard- 
ware for  Harry  Purdy  until  1S9II. 
when  he  spent  five  months  in  Wash- 
ington Territory  on  a  visit  to  his 
father.  On  his  return  he  went  to 
work  again  for  Purdy,  where  he  re- 
mained until  the  latter  was  burned 
out  in  189  4.  when  he  began  selling 
hardware  for  H.  M.  Parks  &  Co. 
After  about  a  year  spent  with  him. 
he  clerked  for  Burkhart  and  Bink- 
ley  until  September,  18  97,  when  he 
opened  a  grocery  store  on  his  own 
account  at  the  southwest  corner  of 
the  square,  which  he  sold  Februar> 
11,  1904,  to  Shannon  Holland. 
December  24,  18G2,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  .1.  Pease, 
daughter  of  Dr.  B.  F.  Pease,  and 
four  boys  have  blessed  their  union. 
While  Mrs.  Sparks  has  been  busy 
with  her  household  cares  and  the 
rearing  and  education  of  her  boys, 
she  has  found  time  to  render  sub- 
stantial assistance  to  her  husband 
in  his  business,  and  has  given  to  the 
world  a  delightful  volume  of  choice 
poems  besides.  Surely  hers  has  been 
a  busy  hand  and  brain.  Her  vol- 
ume bears  the  words  "Wayside  Fan- 
cies" on  the  title  page,  and  will 
amply   repay   a   careful   perusal. 


T.    .1.    ERWIN.   Elevator. 


T.  .1.  Erwin  was  born  in  William- 
son County  in  1840.  He  learned  the 
milling  business  and  followed  it  in 
Saline  County  for  1.5  years.  Later 
he   had  charge  of  the  Crab  Orchard 


.Mills  for  several  years,  and  then  be- 
came manager  of  the  Marion  Ele- 
vator, which  he  has  run  for  over  ten 
years,  and  is  still  in  charge.  He 
was  married  June  2  5,  1SG3,  to  Miss 
Angelina  Groves,  a  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam Groves  of  Marion.  They  have 
seven  children,  five  of  whom  are 
still  living.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Missionar\  Baptist  Church,  and  one 
of  its  deacons.  He  joined  the  Ma- 
sonic Lodge  when  very  young,  and 
is  now  a  member  of  Fellowship 
Lodge  Xo.   89.   Marion. 


JAMES   A.   FELTS. 
Felts    &    Baker. 


James    A.    Felts    was    born    March 
18  02.    in    Lake    Creek    Township, 


.lames  V.  Grider  is  a  native  of 
Franklin  County.  He  was  born 
November  3.  1840,  and  moved  with 
his  fathers  family  into  Williamson 
County  in  1844.  and  into  Marion  In 
1849.  He  enlisted  early  in  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion,  and  served  for 
three  years  and  until  Lee's  sur- 
render. He  first  went  into  the  12Sth 
Illinois,  but  was  afterwards  trans- 
ferred to  the  31st.  He  took  part  in 
the  .grand  march  with  Sherman 
"from  Atlanta  to  the  Sea,"  and  was 
with  his  regiment  only  fifteen  miles 
away  from  Rolla,  N.  C,  when  Gen. 
Jos.  E.  Johnson  surrendered  to  Sher- 
man. He  was  mustered  out  in  July 
of  'G5.  He  has  never  had  the  bene- 
fit of  much  schooling,  but  has  always 
had  a  hand  in  politics,  holding  minor 
offices  almost  continually  since  1869, 
when  he  was  first  elected  constable. 
He  has  served  as  city  marshall  un- 
der Mayor  Jackson,  Holland  and 
Dennison,    receiving   his    present   ap- 


Residence  of  A.  D.  Roach,  Manager  of  the  Marion  Branch  of  the 
Elles  Store  Company. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


ED    A.    ELLES. 
President    of    the     Elles     Store     Co. 
Carterville,    111. 


ROBERT    HOPPER, 

Assistant         Manager      of        Herron 

Br?nrh   of  Elles  Store   Co. 


ELI   D.  ROACH, 

Manager    of    the    Marion    Branch    of 

the    Elles    Store    Company. 


pointment  last  May.  In  1S72  he  was 
County  Assessor,  and  in  18  75  raised 
a  company  of  militia,  of  which  he 
became  captain.  In  187  7  the  com- 
pany became  company  F,  11th  I.  N. 
G.,  of  which  he  was  elected  captain. 
He  is  a  Past  Grand  Master  of  Wil- 
liamson Lodge  392  I.  O.  O.  F..  and 
a  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
South.  He  was  married  November 
24  ,  1867,  to  Amanda  Davis,  by 
whom  he  has  eight  children,  all  liv- 
ing. For  his  second  wife  he  took 
Miss  Martha  Philips.  They  were 
married   December    19,    190  3. 


.TAMES    \V.    WILDER, 
Photographer. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  White  County,  Tennessee, 
May  10,  1858.  His  parents  dying 
when  he  was  but  two  years  old,  he 
became     the    care    of    his    grandpa- 


A.   K.  ELLIS. 
Originator    and    Chief    of    the    Elles 
Store   Co.,   series   of  large   busi- 
ness  houses    in    Williamson 


rents  until  he  was  fifteen  years  old. 
When  about  eighteen,  he  began  to 
work  at  photography  at  Madison- 
ville,  Kentucky,  and  worked  there 
one  year.  He  afterwar's  worked  in 
various  towns  and  cities  in  Ken- 
tucky, Indiana  and  Illinois,  but  fi- 
nally, after  choosing  a  Kentucky 
lady  for  his  life  partner,  he  came  to 
Marion,  March  25,  1891,  and  made 
it  his  permanent  home.  His  wife's 
name  was  Alice  Lilly,  of  Glencoe, 
Kentucky,  and  their  marriage  was 
consummated  September  25,  1884. 
Five  children  have  come  to  this 
union,  but  two  only  survive.  Mr. 
Wilder  has  always  prospered  at  his 
business,  but  on  the  2  5th  of  last 
February,  his  studio  and  all  its 
treasures  were  consumed  by  fire. 
He  had  about  $1400  worth  of  goods 
and  only  $300  insurance.  The 
studio  stood  on  North  Market  street, 
where  the  new   Hyde  building     now 


.1.    G.    APPLEGATH, 

Manager      of      Elles      Bros.      Branch 

Store    at    Whiteash. 


ARTHUR    BAKER, 

Secretary      of   the     Elles   Store   Co., 

Carterville,    111. 


C.  E.  ANDERSON, 

Manager   of   Herrin    Branch   of   Elles 

Store  Company. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSOX   CuUXTY.  ILLINOIS. 


151 


SAMUEL    H.    GOODALL. 

President   of   the   Carterville   District 

Mining   Company. 


.1.    \V.    MITCHELL. 
Sup't.    of    New       Virginia    Coal 
.Tohnson     City,     111. 


A.    E.     HARPER, 

President    of    the    Marion       Electric 

Light    and    Water    Company. 


stands,  and  where  a  new  gallery  is 
being  fitted  up  for  him.  He  united 
with  the  Baptist  church  in  Ken- 
tucky when  but  four  years  old,  and 
is  now  a  member  and  treasurer  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Marion, 
and  always  a  vigorous  and  success- 
ful Sunday  School  and  Church 
worker. 


MARTIX    V.   FELTS. 
Farmer. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the 
son  of  Hardy  Felts  and  Joanna 
Binkley.  Both    were    natives      of 

North  Carolina  and  came  to  Tennes- 
see when  children.  Martin  Felts 
was  born  February  G,  18  37,  in  Ten- 
nessee. His  mother  •iied  when  he 
was  a  lad  of  seven  years.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen,  he  came  with  his 
father  to  Marion,  where  his  father 
died.  Mr.  Felts  was  reared  on  a 
farm  and  has  followed  that  occupa- 
tion all  his  life.  After  the  death  of 
his  father  he  lived  for  two  years 
with  Washington  Binkley  until  the 
latter's  death,  when  he  took  charge 
of  the  farm  and  managed  it  on 
shares  for  four  years,  until  June  1, 
1S63,  when  he  married  Miss  Rebec- 
ca Lucky,  the  daughter  of  J.  M. 
Lucky,  of  Tennessee.  Mrs.  Felts  is 
still  living  and  almost  as  active  as 
when  first  married,  and  scarcely  a 
gray  hair  in  her  head.  They  have 
two  sons,  whose  portraits  appear  in 
this  volume.  Their  only  daughter. 
Mrs.  Condace  Grant,  died  in  1901. 
Soon  after  their  marriage  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Felts  moved  on  the  Benton 
road,  five  miles  north  of  Marion,  on 
the  O'Daniel  farm,  and  bought  from 
Lewis  Parks  one  hundred  and  ten 
acres  of  land  which  they  have  con- 
tinued to  cultivate  until  the  present 
time,   a    period   of   forty   years.      The 


picture  of  the  old  homestead  which 
adorns  these  pages,  justifies  his 
choice  of  a  locality  an  1  shows  what 
nature  will  do  for  man  when  di- 
rected by  intelligence  and  industry. 
The  old  home  has  been  now  for 
some  time  in  the  hands  of  renters, 
and  to  some  extent  shows  the  usual 
marks  of  the  owner's  absence.  He 
has  quit  farming  now  and  has 
l)ought  and  built  a  fine  cottage  in 
Marion,  where  he  expects  to  spend 
his  remaining  days.  Mr.  Felts  has 
always  given  a  great  deal  of  atten- 
tion to  fruit  raising,  and  is  widely 
known  as  the  best  apple  man  in 
Southern  Illinois.  He  is  called  the 
apple  king  of  Williamson  County. 
Fe  planted  ani  owns  twenty  acres 
of  the  best  orchard  in  the  county. 
They  are  largely  Ben  Davis  and 
Wine-sap  trees,  and  a  single  crop 
from  two  and  one-half  acres,  num- 
bering one  hundred  thirty  trees, 
brought  him  on  the  fi^st  of  Septem- 
ber. 1.S99,  $5011. no.  He  sold  to 
Newhall  Sons,  of  Chicago,  who  took 
them  from  the  trees.  The  trees 
v.-ere  fourteen  years  old,  and  yield- 
ed from  four  to  six  barrels  each. 
Mr.  Felts  has  been  a  Master  Mason 
i-i  Marion  for  forty-one  years.  He 
i=;  also  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Church   and  a  Deacon. 

J.    C.    JACKSON.    Furniture. 


J.  C.  Jackson  was  born  June  20, 
1.S42,  and  was  raised  on  a  farm  in 
Sumner  County,  Tennessee.  He 
came  to  Marion  when  eighteen  years 
old,  where  he  has  resided  ever 
since.  Until  1S78  he  followel  the 
trade  of  carpenter  and  builder,  when 
he  took  a  hand  in  politics  and  served 
as  Deputy  Sheriff  until  1SS2.  From 
IS. 8 2  to  18SG  he  was  Clerk  of  the 
County.     In   1877  he  was  first  elect- 


ed mayor,  serving  one  term,  but 
was  re-elected  in  18  83  and  again  in 
1885,  breaking  the  record  by  serv- 
ing three  successive  terms.  He 
served  several  terms  as  Alderman 
and  member  of  the  School  Board, 
and  was  School  Treasurer  for  twelve 
years.  While  himself  a  member  of 
the  M.  E.  Church  South,  he  is  one 
of  the  trustees  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
North,  to  which  his  family  belongs. 
He  was  married  August  2  5,  1863,  to 
Cynthia  E,  Calvert,  three  years  af- 
ter coming  to  Marion,  when  twenty- 
one  years  old.  Five  chillren  are 
the  fruit  of  this  union,  three  of 
whom  are  still  living.  A  Democrat 
in  politics,  he  first  voted  for  Geo. 
B.     McClelland    for    president. 


ROBERT    SPARKS, 
Contractor    and    Builder. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  March,  1876,  near  where 
No.  3  mine  now  stands,  about  three 
miles  northwest  of  Marion.  He 
lived  with  his  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
F.  M.  Sparks,  until  he  was  sixteen 
years  old,  but  began  work  for  him- 
self at  the  age  of  14.  He  secu.ed 
the  rudiments  of  an  education  at 
our  common  schools,  but  at  17  years 
of  age  he  dropped  his  bno:cs  and 
took  up  the  saw  and  hammer. 
Showing  a  natural  aptitule  for  the 
business,  he  has  successfully  pros- 
ecuted it  till  the  present  time. 
Among  the  jobs  he  has  carried 
throu5;h  may  be  mentioned  the  Felts 
&  Baker  substantial  brick  buildin::, 
near  the  northwest  corner  of  the 
piiblic  square:  the  new  Telephone 
building;  Mr.  Schwerdt's  fine  resi- 
dence on  South  Market  street:  re- 
modeling the  A.  F.  White,  building 
on  the  south  side  of  the  i.ul)iic 
square   and   putting   in   a   new   front. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS 


MARION  ELECTRIC  LIGHT  POWER   HOUSE. 


and  the  new  Opera  House  block,  on 
north  Market  street,  upon  vhich 
they  are  still  engaged.  He  is  a 
member  of  Ben  Hur  and  the  Mis- 
sionary Baptist  Churoh.  He  is  still 
unmarried. 


JEREMIAH   CASH,   Pioneer. 


Was  born  July  6,  1S2  4,  in  Har- 
den County,  Kentucky,  where  he 
live3  and  followed  the  plow  until 
20  years  old.  He  then  learned  the 
blacksmith  and  wagon  business, 
which  he  followed  until  an  attack  of 
measles,  which  settled  in  his  eyes, 
so  injured  them  that  after  working 
at  the  business  for  seven  years  he 
was  compelled  to  abandon  it,  and 
for  six  years  was  comparatively  idle. 

In  1884,  while  blacksmithing,  he 
married  Miss  Amanda  M.  Williams, 
by  whom  he  had  six  children. 

In  February,  1865,  he  came  to 
Williamson  County  with  his  family 
and  settled  at  Bainbriige,  where  he 
lived  until  1S70,  when  he  took 
charge  of  the  Poor  Farm,  and  run  it 
for  seven  years.  He  then  bought  a 
farm  near  Marion,  which  he  run  for 
four  years  and  again  took  charge  of 
the  Poor  Farm  for  three  years  more. 
After  this  he  moved  to  Carterville 
and  went  into  the  grocery  business 
in  company  with  his  son  Charles, 
but  in  1SS6  he  sold  out  his  interest 
to  his  son  and  until  1897  worked 
at  carpenter  work  and  house-paint- 
ing. He  then  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Crainville,  where  he  re- 
mained till  February,  1904,  but  af- 
ter one  year  sold  out  and  moved  to 
Marion. 

His  first  wife  died  in  1884,  and 
two  years  later  he  married  Saphron- 
ia  Emily  Crain,  by  whom  he  has  had 
two  children,  but  both  are  dead. 
The  names  of  his  children  by  the 
first  wife  are  Charles  M.,  insurance. 


Carterville;  Susan  E.,  wife  of  Daniel 
Walker,  Johnson  City;  Louisa  M., 
wife  of  James  Tippy,  Marion;  Mil- 
dred C,  wife  of  Cornelius  Brown. 
Oklahoma;  Noah  Claybourn.  Marion. 
Mr.  Cash  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Missionary  Baptist  church  for 
forty-four  years.  He  is  a  Democrat 
and  a  member  of  the  A.  F.  and  A. 
M. 


ROBERT  C.   THOMPSON. 
Mine  Boss. 


Is  a  native  of  England,  born  July 
25th,  1849.  His  wife  was  Ann  Hen- 
derson, a  native  of  County  Durham, 
England.  They  were  married  in 
England  July  23,  1868,  and  two  of 
their  twelve  children  were  born 
there.      They    came   to    Kentucky    in 


July,  1S7S,  and  two  years  later  they 
moved  to  Min-physboro,  where  Mr. 
Thompson  went  to  work  immeliate- 
ly  in  the  mines.  He  was  a  miner  in 
England,  and  was  at  home  in  this 
great   coal   field. 

In  1898  they  moved  to  Marion, 
and  two  years  later  bought  a  farm 
about  four  and  one-half  miles  north- 
west of  town,  where  they  still  make 
their  home.  For  about  sixteen 
years  past  Mr.  Thompson  has  had 
charge  of  various  mines  in  this  re- 
gion, and  is  now  mine  boss  of  a 
mine  about  two  miles  north  of  his 
home.  He  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  while  living  at  Murphys- 
boro  was  for  two  years  one  of  the 
Supervisors  of  the  County  and  over- 
seer of  the  poor.  He  was  also  for 
two  years  mine  inspector  for  his 
County.  They  are  members  of  the 
M.  E.  church.  The  names  and  resi- 
dences of  their  six  living  children  in 
the  order   of  their   birth   are; 

Mrs.  Rebecca  Chandler,  Seattle; 
Joseph  Thompson,  Marion;  M'S.  An- 
na Chapman,  Marion;  Miss  Margaret 
Thompson.  Marion;  Miss  Clara 
Thompson,  Marion,  and  Harry 
Thompson,   Marion. 


T. 
Abstracts, 


J.  YOUNGBLOOD 
Loans,    Real    Estate 
Insurance. 


Was  born  in  Laclede  County,  Mis- 
souri, March  8,  1857.  His  father 
was  Solomon  B.  Youngblood,  who 
was  born  on  the  Jacob  Sanders  place, 
about  seven  miles  northeast  of  Ma- 
rion, in  1828.  He  married  Lucinda 
Tyree,  a  native  of  Southwestern 
Missouri,  where  she  was  born  in 
1827  and  died  in  1869.  The  elder 
Youngblood  returning  to  William- 
son County  lived  till  1891,  dying  at 
the  age  of   63. 


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SOU\ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


153 


and  geiiUe  to  drive  in  harness.  Pedi- 
gree on  application.  John  W.  Gray, 
owner,   .Marion,  Illinois. 


BLACK  RILEY,  No.   UGGGl. 

Large  English  Berkshire  Boar, 
born  November  1,  1900,  weight  900 
pounds,  bred  by  W.  H.  Ker.  Todd 
and  Larned,  owners  and  breeders  of 
English  Berkshire  swine,  Pinckney- 
ville,    Illinois. 


MARION    CORNET   BAND. 


BROCKMAN. 
Six  years  old,   standard   bred   driving  gelding. 
Crowell,  Marion,   Illinois. 


This  popular  musical  organization. 
is  composed  of  the  following  play- 
ers: Charles  Reynolds,  leader;  Frank 
Elles,  clarinet;  Bert  Elles,  slide 
trombone;  Herbert  Raymond,  cor- 
net; Will  Davis,  alto;  John  Balder, 
baritone;  Charles  Norman,  tenor; 
Roily  Crain,  tuba;  Fred  Peebles, 
snare  drum;  Louis  Scurlock,  bass 
drum.  They  meet  in  the  City  Hall 
for  practice  twice  a  week. 


Owned   by  J.   B. 


THE  BARBERS  OF  MARION. 


The  early  life  of  our  subject  was 
spent  in  Missouri,  where  he  received 
such  education  and  training  as  the 
meager  advantages  of  that  country 
then  afforded,  securing  a  total  of 
only  two  terms  of  subscription 
school  of  three  months  each.  In 
1875  he  came  to  Stone  Fort,  at  the 
age  of  IS,  and  after  one  term  at  the 
public  school,  went  to  select  school 
until  he  had  fitted  himself  for 
teaching,  which  occupation  he  fol- 
lowed until  1SS3.  when  he  took  up 
the  study  of  law.  He  kept  up  the 
practice  of  teaching  winters,  how- 
ever, and  read  law  summers  at  odd 
times  as  he  got  opportunity,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1889. 
The  following  winter  he  taught  his 
last  term  of  school.  Receiving  the 
nomination  on  the  Republican  ticket 
for  county  superintendent  of  schools 
he  moved  to  Marion,  was  electel  in 
spite  of  opposition,  and  served  two 
terms.  This  experience  brought 
him  into  politics,  and  he  never  took 
up  the  practice  of  law,  but  took  up 
the  Real  Estate,  Insurance  and  Ab- 
stract business,  and  in  April,  1S99, 
■was  elected  Mayor  of  Marion,  serv- 
ing one  term.  January  27,  1892, 
he  was  united  in  mariage  to  Miss 
Nora  Erwin,  daughter  of  T.  J.  and 
Angeline  Erwin,  of  Stone  Fort,  by 
whom  he  has  had  one  boy,  now 
eleven  years  old.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  I.  O.  O.  F. 


sired  by  Archbishop,  dam  Field- 
mont,  grand  dam  Chariton  and  great 
grand   dam    Barrington. 


LEWIS   HUNTER. 


Lewis  Hunter  is  a  beautiful  ma- 
hogany bay,  16  hands  high,  weight 
1250  lbs.,  9  years  old,  high  style, 
good  knee  and  hock  action,  rich  in 
color,  heavy  mane  and  tail,  heavy 
flat  bone,  will  suit  any  breeder  that 
knows  a  good  horse  when  he  sees 
one.  Has  never  been  worked  for 
speed,    but    is    a    fine    gaited    trotter 


The  Marion  Tonsorial  Artists 
number  no  less  than  23  active  mem- 
bers. They  have  six  or  more  shops 
where  the  2?.  supple  beautifiers,  or 
perhaps  more  accurately  "de-facers" 
of  the  genus  homo,  wield  the  imple- 
ments of  their  weekly  harvest  of 
hirsute  adornment.  As  becomes 
gentlemen  of  the  soap  and  lathering 
profession,  they  stick  close  together, 
albeit  it  forming  a  sleek  and  pros- 
perous union  which  is  numbered  267. 
Grant  Durham  is  the  President;  Lee 
Searles  vice  president;  John  Heck, 
secretary  and  Walter  Wiley,  treas- 
urer.      They  meet  the  last  Monday 


BILLY   BRYAN, 


Billy  Bryan  is  a  trotting  stallion 
owned  by  J.  P.  Chamness,  Marion. 
Is  four  years  old,  16  hands  high, 
weight  1000  pounds  and  time  2.35. 
He  always  won  first  or  second  in 
class    where    he    was    put.      He    was 


NONE  BETTER. 

Short-horned    Durham    Bull   Jim.      Four   years   old,    weighs    1800 

pounds.     D.   B.   James,   owner,  Carterville,  Illinois. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


daughter  of  George  w'.  and  Maria 
Binkley.  and  she  died  May  li,  1883. 
They  were  the  parents  of  Mrs.  Henry 
Stein,  of  Murphysboro;  Samuel  K. 
Casey,  of  Marion,  and  Mrs.  C.  R. 
Oliver,    of   Whiteash. 


LABOR    UNIONS    OF    WILLIAMSON 
COUNTY,   ILLINOIS. 


two  miles  east  of  Marion.      Mr 
them. 


in  each  month. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the 
members  of  the  union  in  Marlon: 
J.  B.  Parker,  V.  A.  Scurlock.  Walter 
Wiley,  Arthur  Davis,  Lee  Scarles, 
Lonnie  Byers.  John  Heck,  Ed  Dur- 
ham, Freeman  Sisk,  Ed  Sisk,  R. 
Crisp,  Charles  Fowler,  Kid  Calvert, 
Will  Hudspeth,  W.  H.  Absher,  Will 
Durham,  Frank  Howe,  Grant  Dur- 
ham, Jemsan  Durham  and  Ed 
Threet,    colored. 


.Mules    ;iii(l    rolls,    nil    his    l;iriii, 
Sanders  and  his  daughter  with 


She  died  in  her  old  home  in  William- 
son County,  Illinois,  January  15, 
1SS7,  aged  77  years,  one  month  and 
21  days.  Her  maiden  name  was 
Lewis.  She  was  married  to  George 
W.  Binkley  February  24,  1S29,  and 
came  with  her  husband  to  Illinois 
the  same  year.  Her  husband  pre- 
ceded her  to  the  land  of  shadows 
many  years,  having  died  August  20, 
1S59,  aged  53  years,  2  months  and 
14    days. 


GEO.   W.   BINKLEY,   Deceased. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  in  Tennessee  June  ,  1806.  He 
came  to  Williamson  County  while  it 
was  yet  a  wilderness  and  became 
very  prominent  in  shaping  its  de- 
velopment and  in  the  affairs  of 
Southern  Illinois.  He  was  County 
Surveyor  and  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
and  a  member  of  the  51st  District  in 
the  State  Legislature  in  l.'i5  7  ancl 
'58.  He  was  bodily  and  mentally  a 
very  powerful  man:  of  strong  will 
and  force  of  character,  of  good  judg- 
ment and  sound  mind  and  morals. 
He  was  universally  esteemed  and 
highly  respected  during  his  lifetime. 
and  widely  mourned  and  missed  at 
his  death. 

He  was  the  father  of  three  chil- 
dren and  the  foster  father  of  seven. 
His  children  were  Joseph,  who  died 
in  infancy:  Mrs.  Alt  L.  Godding  and 
Mrs.  Jesse  M.  Casey.  He  and  his 
wife,  Maria  Binkley,  always  had  an 
open  door,  a  well-spread  board  and 
a  warm  heart  for  every  needy  per- 
son, particularly  the  young,  and 
were  regarded  as  the  foster  parents 
of  all  in  the  county  who  needed  love 
and.  "Wash"  and  "Maria"  always 
had  a  home  for  the  homeless  and 
none   went   away   hungry. 

His  wife  was  also  a  native  of 
Robinson  County,  Tennessee,  where 
she    was  born    November   24,     1809. 


JESSE   M.   CASEY,    Deceased. 


Was  born  February  19,  1832,  and 
died  January  5,  1897.  aged  63  years, 
10  months  and  16  days.  His  wife 
was     Cynthia     Binkley.    the     second 


While  we  have  neither  time  nor 
space  to  discuss  the  principles  or 
policy  of  these  societies,  we  may  say 
in  a  general  way  that  labor  is  thor- 
oughly organized  here  and  the 
unions  meet  with  very  little  opposi- 
tion. Society  has  come  to  recognize 
them  as  a  useful  educational  force 
which  serves  to  educate  our  foreign- 
born  citizens  in  the  doctrines  and 
policy  of  the  republic,  faiiiiliarize 
them  with  American  ideas  and  meth- 
ods, obliterate  class  distinctions 
founded  on  race  or  creed  and  solid- 
ify an  inharmonious  and  heteroge- 
neous population  into  a  united  and 
patriotic   community. 

It  serves  also  to  discourage,  and 
will  eventually  obliterate,  all  lan- 
guages here  but  the  English.  To 
what  extent  they  are  able  to  shorten 
the  hours  of  labor  or  increase  wages 
is  probably  not  yet  fully  understood, 
but  it  is  the  least  valuable  service 
their   unions   render   the   community. 

Viewed  in  this  light,  all  good  citi- 
zens look  upon  their  efforts  with 
more  or  less  of  favor,  and  none  offer 
any   violent    opposition. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  prin- 
cipal labor  unions  of  the  County. 
Those  omitted  could  not  be  obtained, 
which    is   regretted.      They   are: 

Local  Union  1880  U.  M.  W.  of  A., 
chartered  August    30,    1901,   with   E. 


MULE  "PETE." 
D.  B.  James,  Carterville,  Illinois,  owner.     One  year  old.  15  hands 
high.      Blue  ribbon   at  Williamson   Co.    Fair  on  September   13. 
14,  15  and  16,  1904. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSOX   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


155 


W.   F.   Sanders    and  his  span  of    matched   mules  which    took  the 
lilne   ribbon   at    the   MarionFair, September,    1904. 


A.  Younkins,  president,  D.  A.  Tippy, 
secretary.  This  local  was  a  branch 
from  717,  working  under  the  South- 
ern Illinois  coal  mining  and  wash- 
ing company.  It  now  has  a  mem- 
bership of  335,  one  of  the  lanner 
locals  of  the  7th  sub-district.  The 
present  officers  are  Bailey  Butler, 
president ;  Charles  Smothers,  secre- 
tary. 

Local  2  70  4  N.  M.  W.  of  A.,  char- 
tered September  28,  1904,  lirsi  lo- 
cated at  Pallard  with  James  Bough 
president  and  Green  Hopkins,  secre- 
tary: working  under  the  \vatson 
Coal  Co.  The  present  otficers  are 
Henderson  Clarida,  president;  J.  3. 
Fry,    secretary;    membership    40. 

Local  Union  2216  U.  M.  W.  of  A., 
chartered  January  3,  IJO:!,  with 
Wm.  Towers  president,  Thomas 
Falls,  secretary,  working  under  the 
Carterville  District  Corl  Co.  Has  a 
membership  of  150.  Present  offi- 
cers are  Thos.  Gahagan,  president, 
and   E.  A.   Mclntosn,  secretary. 

Local  Union  508,  United  Brother- 
hood of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of 
America,  chartered  Novem'jor  2  6, 
1901,  with  a  membei'tihip  of  20; 
present    membership     7o.  Present 

officers  are  Wallace  Peebles,  presi- 
dent ;    Frank  Woodside,  secretary. 

International  Hod-Carriei's  and 
Building  Laborers  Union,  Xo.  121, 
chartered  October  ^7,  190i!,  with 
Leroy  Bradley,  president,  and  Chas. 
Calvert,  secretary.  Present  mem- 
bership 16.  Present  officers  are  C. 
C.  Calvert,  president;  John  Latham, 
secretary. 

Local  Union  292  of  International 
Steam  Engineers,  chartered  Febru- 
ary 11,  1905,  with  Henry  Wea-i  er, 
president,  and  E.  A.  Elles,  secretary. 
Membership    18. 

Local  Union  382  of  International 
Brotherhood  of  Teamsters,  chartered 
October   1.   1903,  with  a  meinber.ship 


of  7;  C.  T.  Davis,  president;  J.  L. 
Bond,  secretary.  Now  has  a  mem- 
bership of  3(1,  with  J.  B.  V.  I'oth- 
ram,  president,  and  A.  M.  Garrison, 
secretary. 

Local  205  Bartenders  Interna- 
tional League,  chartered  November 
4,  1901,  has  a  membership  of  20; 
Drew  Reynolds,  president,  and  C.  H. 
Davis,   secretary. 

Local  52  3  Retail  Clerks  Protec- 
tive Ass'n.,  chartered  February  6, 
1902,  with  a  membership  of  49. 
Xow  has  a  membership  of  6  5.  Pres- 
ent officers,  R.  H.  Jeter,  president. 
Miss  Fannie  Davis,  secretary.  This 
is  one  of  the  most  essential  unions 
in  the  labor  ranks. 


F"ederal  Labor  Union  6415,  char- 
tered May  15,  1900,  with  X.  Davis 
president;  John  JoUey.  secretary, 
and  with  a  membership  of  9.  Now 
has  membership  of  75;  Joseph  Hill, 
president;    Wm.   Prather,  secretary. 

Local  Union  1380  U.  M.  W.  of  A., 
chartered  July  3,  1900,  with  W.  A. 
Sanders,  president;  John  Sanders, 
secretary,  working  under  the  Chi- 
cago and  Big  Muddy  Coal  Co.  Has 
a  present  membership  of  175;  Hun- 
ter McAlphin,  president,  John  Hill, 
secretary. 

United  Powder  and  High  Explo- 
sive Workers  Local  126,  organized 
February  24,  1904,  with  Samuel 
Powell  president,  Samuel  Aikman 
secretary.  Has  a  present  member- 
ship of  2  6.  Present  officers  Geo. 
Davis    secretary. 

Local  Union  717  U.  M.  W.  of  A., 
chartered  October  16,  1899.  This 
is  the  oldest  local  union  in  Marion. 
Its  first  officers  were  W.  B.  Evertt, 
president,  and  Ab  Franklen,  secre- 
tary. It  has  a  membership  of  225, 
working  under  the  Southern  Illinois 
Coal  Mining  and  Washing  Co.  Pres- 
ent officers  are  Scott  Howard,  presi' 
dent,    and    Pete    Holland,    secretary. 

Marion  Trades  Council.  char- 
tered September  7,  1901;  Henry 
Brown.  presiJent;  John  Peebles, 
secretary.  Has  a  representation 
from  seventeen  local  unions  of  three 
delegates  each.  Present  officers  are 
Bailey  Butler,  president;  R.  L. 
Bryan,  secretary;  P.  J.  Smith,  busi- 
ness agent. 

Brotherhood  of  Painters.  Deco- 
rators and  Paperhangers.  No.  431, 
chartered  September  10,  1901,  has  a 
membership  of  19.  Officers,  Coth- 
ran.    president;     Ed    Enchliff,    secre- 


BEN 
Standard-bred     Stallion     Trotter; 
12 SO   pounds;    color,   rosewood 
Carterville.  Illinois. 


LUD. 

seven   years    old;    IGyi   hands; 
bay.  Ben  L.  Washburn,   owner. 


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SOUVENIR   OF   W'll.l.lAAU^OX    COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


A  little  bunch  of  fine  premium  Poland  China  Hogs,  owned  by 
\V.  F.  Sander,  two  miles  east  of  Marion,  Illinois. 


Local  U.  M.  W.  of  A.  No.  2556, 
chartered  October  30,  1903;  presi- 
dent C.  W.  Burke,  secretary  John 
Wallace.  Present  membership  105. 
Operates  in  connection  with  New 
Ohio  Washed   Coal  Co.,  No.   3. 

Journeymen  Barbers  Internation- 
al Union,  Local  2G7,  chartered  June 
9,  1902.  Has  a  membership  of  23; 
present  officers.  Grant  Durham,  pres- 
ident;   John   Heck,    secretary. 

Brick,  Tile  and  Terre  Cotta  Work- 
ers Alliance  No.  167,  organized  in 
1903.  Present  membership  22; 
Henry  Belford,  president:  Samuel 
Quick,  secretary. 

Local  710  U.  M.  VV.  of  A.,  organ- 
ized by  Joah  Cook,  of  Du  Quoin,  on 
the  same  day  that  the  189S  agree- 
ment was  signed  between  the  U.  M. 
W.  of  A.  and  the  Illinois  Coal  Op- 
erators Ass'n.  The  oldest  local 
union  in  Williamson  County.  First 
president,  James  Kelly.  Has  been 
the  banner  local  of  the  County. 
Present  membership  135;  present 
officers,  James  Cochran,  president; 
A.  B.  Williamson,  secretary;  work- 
ing under  the  New  Ohio  Washed 
Coal   Co. 

Marlon  Typographical  Union,  No. 
578,  chartered  July  19,  1902.  Its 
first  officers  were  Ben  Newsome, 
president;  Chas.  W.  Burke,  vice 
Joe  M.  Bond,  financial 
N.  Van  Linder,  recording 
Emery  Hogan,  sergeant- 
Present  officers  are  T.  E. 
Craig,  president;  Hiram  Rice,  vice 
president;  Mento  Bradley,  financial 
secretary;  N.  Van  Linder,  recording 
•secretary;  Elmer  Miller,  sergeant-at' 
arms.  The  union  at  present  num- 
Ijers  14.  All  the  news  offices  in  Ma- 
rion work  under  its  rules,  and  its 
organization  has  been  extended  to 
■embrace  Carterville  It  is  In  a  fine 
flourishing  condition,  and  has  never 
been  in  arrears  with  its  per  capita 
tax  for  the  International  Union  from 
which   it   received  its  charter. 


MINING. 


Complete  list  of  coal  mines  ship- 
ping coal  located  in  Williamson  Co., 
Illinois,  compiled  by  B.  S.  Craine. 
Mining  and  Civil  Engineer,  Marion, 
111.,  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Peabody 
Coal   Co.,    Chicago,    111. 

Southern  Illinois  Coal  Mining  and 
Washing  Co.,  No.  3,  located  on  Sec. 
1,  Town  9,  Range  2  Bast;  main  office 
at  Marion,  111.;  depth  110  feet;  daily 
capacity,  2  500  tons:  vein  9  to  10 
feet  coal;  washer  capacity  1500 
tons;  iron  tipple;  first-class  equip- 
ment   throughout;    three  years. 

Southern  Illinois  C.  M.  and  W. 
Co.,  No.  2,  Sec.  1,  Town  9,  Range  2 
East,  depth  85  feet;  9  to  10  feet  of 
coal;  wooden  tipple;  daily  capacity 
12  00   tons;    operating   7   years. 


Chicago  Big  Muddy  Coal  Co.,  Sec. 
;;2,  Town  9,  Range  2  East;  depth  80 
feet;  mining  8  feet  of  coal;  woo;len 
tipple;  daily  capacity  1200  tons; 
operating  4   years. 

Watson  No.  1,  Sec.  3,  Town  9, 
Range  2  East;  depth  60  feet;  min- 
ing N  foot  vein  of  coal;  capacity  800 
tons;  wooden  tipple;  operating  6 
months. 

Watson  No.  2,  Sec.  34,  Town  9, 
Range  2  Eg.st ;  depth  70  feet;  wood- 
en tipple;  mining  8  feet  of  coal; 
capacity  80  0  tons;  running  6 
months. 

Carterville  Mining  Co.,  Sec.  32, 
Town  8,  Range  2  East;  depth  60 
leet:  thickness  of  vein  9  feet;  ca- 
pacity  1500   tons;   wooden  tipple. 

Carterville  Coaling  Co.,  Sec.  31, 
Town  8,  Range  2  East;  depth  90 
feet;  wooden  •  tipple;  capacity  1500 
Ions. 

New  Ohio  No.  1.,  Sec.  3  Town  9 
Range  3  East;  depth  65  feet;  vein 
8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  1500 
tons;  washer  capacity  600  tons;  op- 
erating 8   years. 

New  Ohio  No.  2,  Sec.  33,  Town  8, 
Range  3  East;  depth  60  feet;  vein  8 
feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  1000 
tons;  washer  capacity  600  tons;  op- 
erating  15  years. 

New  Ohio  Coal  Co.  No.  3,  Sec.  3  6, 
Town  8,  Range  3  East;  depth,  100 
feet;  vein  8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  ca- 
pacity 1500  tons;  operating  1  year. 
St.  Louis  anl  Carterville  Coal  Co., 
Sec.  29,  Town  S,  Range  2  East; 
depth,  100  feet;  vein  8~feet ;  wooden 
tipple;  capacity  15O0  tons;  operat- 
ing 1   year. 

C.  C.  Co.,  No.  1,  Sec.  2,  Town  9, 
Range  3  East;  depth,  60  feet;  vein 
8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  500 
tons;    operating  12  years. 


president; 
secretary; 
secretary; 
at  arms. 


ENGLISH   BERKSHIRE   BOAR,    "BLACK   RILEY." 

Thos.    Todd,    owner    and    breeder     of    pure-bloodel  -  Berkshires. 

Pinckneyville.    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR   OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


3/ 


"CHAMPION  OF  ILLINOIS." 

Single-comb.  Black  Minorca.    Black  Diamond  PouUl■^ 

Yard,   T.  A.   Lauder,  Proprietor.  Carterville,   111. 


C.  C.  Co.,  No.  2,  Sec.  34,  Town  S, 
Range  3  East;  depth.  SO  feet;  vein 
8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  80  0 
tons;    operating    C   years. 

C.  C.  Co.  No.  3,  Sec.  34,  Town  S, 
Range  3  East;  depth,  80  feet;  vein 
S  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  1.'>imi 
tons;  washer  capacity  6'oo  tons;  op- 
erating 2  years. 

Sam  T.  Brush,  See.  :M,  Town  8, 
Range  1  East.  Our  shaft.  No.  1, 
which  is  known  as  Dawes  Shaft,  is 
located  on  the  northwest  quarter  of 
Section  35,  Town  8  south,  Range  1 
east;  depth  of  shaft  100  feet;  thick- 
ness of  coal  9  feet;  wooden  tipple; 
capacity  2500  tons  daily;  a  Luhrig 
Washer,  capacity  60  0  tons  in  eight 
hours;  electric  haulage  and  lighting 
plant  connected  with  the  mine,  elec- 
tric pumps  usel  for  pumping  water 
out  of  the  mine.  The  St.  Louis  & 
Big  Muddy  Coal  Co.  owns  about 
3000  acres  of  the  Carterville  coal 
field  in  a  compact  body,  lying  north 
of  and  adjoining  Carterville,  in  Wil- 
liamson County,  Illinois.  This  body 
of  land  was  selected  by  Mr.  Brush 
after  he  had  prospected  and  tested 
all  of  the  coal  land  in  Williamson 
County.  The  largest  amount  of  coal 
taken  from  the  shaft  any  one  year 
was  347000  tons,  in  1897.  Operat- 
ing 12  years. 

Anderson  Coal  Co..  Sec.  23.  Town 
8,  Range  3  East;  depth  135  feet; 
vein  8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity 
1500  tons;   operating  1  year. 

The  Carterville  &  Herrin  Jeffrey 
Coal  Co.,  Sec.  22,  Town  S,  Range  2 
East;  depth  130  feet;  vein  S  feet; 
wooden  tipple;  capacity  1500  tons: 
operating  1  year. 

Williamson  County  Coal  Co<.  Sec. 
24.   Town   8,      Range   3    East;    depth 


120  feet;  vein  S  feet;  wooden  tipple; 
capacity  1000  tons;  operating  8 
years. 

Johnson  City  &  Big  Muddy  Coal 
Co.,  Sec.  24,  Town  8,  Range  2  East; 
depth  220  feet;  vein  8  feet;  wooden 
tipple;  capacity  1500  tons;  operat- 
ing 2  years. . 

Big  Muddy  Coal  Co.,  Sec.  33,  Town 
8  Range  3  East;  depth  SO  feet;  vein 
8  feet;  woolen  tipple;  capacity  1200 
tons. 

R.    D.    Coal   Co.,   Sec.    28,   Town   8. 


Range  3  East;  depth  GO  feet;  vein  8 
feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  SOO 
tons. 

Daniel  K  Coal  Co,  Sec.  2G,  Town 
S  Range  3  East;  depth  110  feet; 
vein  8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity 
15  0  tons;   operating  2  years. 

S.  S.  Coal  Co.,  Sec.  25,  Town  8, 
Range  3  East;    depth   160  feet;   vein 

9  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  2500 
tons;  washer  800  tons;  operating  4 
years. 

Alexander  Coal  Mine,  called  Nub- 
bing  Ridge,  at  Herrin,  Sec.  30,  Town 
8,  Range  2  East;  depth  161  feet; 
vein  9  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity 
120  0  tons;  operating  3  years;  The 
Chicago-Herrin   Coal   Co. 

Chicago-Carterville  Coal  Co.,  4 
C's,  Sec.  19,  Town  8.  Range  3  East; 
depth  180  feet;  vein  9  feet;  wooden 
tipple;    capacity    2500    tons;    washer 

10  00    tons;    operating   5   years. 

Big  Muddy  Coal  and  Iron  Co..  No. 
7.  Sec.  20,  Town  S,  Range  2  East; 
depth  135  feet;  vein  8  feet;  wooden 
tipple;  capacity  2000  tons;  washer 
Sdo  tons;   operating  7  years. 

B.  M.  C.  &  I.  Co.,  No.  8,  Sec.  14, 
Town  S,  Range  3  East;  depth  190 
feet;  vein  8  feet;  iron  tipple;  capac- 
ity 2  500  tons;  washer  800  tons;  op- 
erating  1  year. 

W.  C.  M.  Co.,  Sec.  8,  Town  8, 
Range  3  East;  depth  220  feet;  vein 
8  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  10  00 
tons;    operating   2   years. 

N.  V.  Coal  Co..  Sec.  25,  Town  8, 
Range  2  East;  depth  120  feet;  vein 
S  feet;  wooden  tipple;  capacity  1000 
tons;   operating  4  years. 

C.  D.  Coal  Co.,  Sec.  36,  Town  8, 
Range  2  Bast;  depth  100  feet;  vein 
8  feet;   wooden  tipple;   capacity  1500 


"FAMOrS," 

Imported  coach.      Foaled   in   1905   in 

&   Son.   Lafayette,   Indiana.      Owne 

C.    McNeill,    President:    S.    H.    Bun 


NO.    22 n;;. 

Germany.  Imported  by  J.  Crouch 
d  by  the  Carterville  Horse  Co.,  W. 
dv,  Secretary;   John  Murphy,  keeper. 


158 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


MISS   EDNA  WEEDEN. 
Daughter  of  Rev.  W.  W.  Weeden,  Pastor  of  the  Christian  Church,  Marion,  Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


159 


MISS    NETTIE    BIXKLEY, 
Daughter  of  T.  J.   Binkley.   driving  her  favorite  buggy   horse. 


tons;  operating  2  years;  Carterville 
District   Coal   Co. 

Chicago  &  Marion  Coal  Co.,  depth 
110  feet;  vein  8  feet;  wooden  tip- 
ple; capacity  1500  tons;  operating 
1  year. 

Zeigler  Coal  Co.,  Franklin  Coun- 
ty, Sec.  13,  Town  7,  Range  3  East; 
depth  350  feet;  vein  8  feet;  iron  tip- 
ple and  coke  ovens;  capacity  2500 
tons;    operating   2   years. 

W.  C.  &  C.  Co.,  Sec.  1,  Town  S, 
Range  3  East;  sunk  100  feet  each 
shaft  and  stopped  because  the  rail- 
road would  not  put  in  a  switch.  The 
thickness  of  the  vein  as  given  in  this 
list  represents  only  the  number  of 
feet  being  mined.  The  strata  aver- 
ages 9   feet   thick  and  over. 


feet  of  this  shaft  is  used  for  a  stair- 
day;  the  rest  of  the  space  is  used  for 
ventilating. 

The  Chicago-Carterville  Coal  Com- 
pany's shaft  at  Herrin  has  a  seam 
about  9  feet  in  thickness  and  of  su- 
perior quality;  the  depth  of  the 
shaft  is  ISO  feet  to  the  coal;  the 
size  of  the  shaft  is  9  1-2x17  feet  in 
the  clear,  and  is  divided  into  three 
compartments;  the  two  for  hoisting 
are  7x9  1-2  feet  each.  The  pipe- 
way  is  2x9  1-2  feet  and  all  are  tim- 
bered with  cypress  bunions  GxlS  in- 
ches; the  head  frame  is  of  yellow 
pine  and  is  7  5  feet  high  to  the 
sheaves,  which  are  12x12  inches;  all 
timbers      are    well    braced      42    feet 


from  the  ground  line  to  the  dump- 
ing landing.  The  dumping  shed  is 
built  of  oak,  with  corrugated  iron 
roof  and  sides,  and  is  equipped  with 
shaker  screns  for  making  lump,  egg 
and  other  sizes  of  coal.  The  struc- 
ture is  so  arranged  that  a  breaker 
can  be  ercted  in  the  future  with  dis- 
turbing mining  operations.  The 
hoisting  engine  house  is  of  brick,  22 
X  2G  feet;  the  engine  is  of  the  Craw- 
ford and  McCremmon  manufacture, 
and  is  first  motion,  with  double  coni- 
cal drum  cylinders  2  0x36  inches; 
the  drums  are  6  feet  at  the  ends  and 
7  1-2  feet  in  the  center.  The 
sheaves  are  7  feet  in  diameter;  the 
capacity  of  each  mine  is  2  1-2  tons. 
The  boiler  shed  is  34x52  feet.  There 
are  five  boilers,  one  is  16  feet  by  42 
inches,  with  30  three-inch  flues; 
two  are  20  feet  by  60  inches  with 
20  six-inch  flues;  the  other  two  are 
20  feet  by  72  inches  with  20  six- 
inch  flues.  All  are  supplied  with 
the  necessary  connections  and  fit- 
tings. The  power-house  is  a  frame 
building,  30x46  feet,  with  metal 
sides  and  roof,  and  now  contains  a 
Morgan-Gardner  100  K.  W.  genera- 
tor, also  an  Erie  150  horse-power 
automatic  engine,  with  necessary 
connections  and  fittings  for  operat- 
ing electric  coal-mining  machines. 
The  carpenter,  blacksmith  and  ma- 
chine shops  are  in  one  building,  25 
x90  feet,  with  all  necessary  ma- 
chinery for  doing  all  work  and  re- 
pairs. The  air  shaft  is  9x15  feet  in 
the  clear,  and  is  separated  into  two 
compartments,  one  9x9  feet  for  ven- 
tilating, the  other  is  4x9  feet  for  es- 
capement. The  fan  is  2  0  feet  in  di- 
ameter with  a  12x24-inch  engine  to 
run  it.  The  washing  plant  has  a  ca- 
pacity of  150  tons  per  hour.  With- 
out     doubt     this     is     one     of     the 


ACCOUNT  OF  SOME  OF  THE  PRIN- 
CIPAL COAL  MIXES  OF  THE 
COUNTY. 


The  Sunnyside  Coal  Company's 
new  shaft  is  145  feet  to  the  top  of 
the  coal.  The  thickness  of  the  seam 
is  9  feet.  The  size  of  the  shaft  is 
17  feet,  8  inches  by  9  feet  in  the 
clear,  the  hoisting  and  shafts  being 
6  feet,  8  inches  by  nine  feet  each, 
and  the  pipe-way  3  feet  by  9.  The 
hoisting  engines  are  18x32  inches, 
double,  of  the  Litchfield  manufac- 
ture; the  drum  is  6  feet  in  diameter, 
and  the  capacity  of  the  mine  is  2  1-2 
tons.  The  boilers  are  48  inches  by 
26  feet,  hung  to  iron  framing.  The 
smoke-stack  is  four  feet  in  diameter 
and  fifty  feet  high.  The  ventilating 
fan  is  of  the  Crawford  and  McCres- 
mau  manufacture,  and  is  twenty  feet 
in  diameter,  driven  by  an  engine  12 
x24  inches,  direct  motion.  It  is  lo- 
cated at  the  air  shaft.  The  size  of 
the  escapement  shaft  is  8x13  feet  in 
the   clear;      four  feet    S    inches   by   8 


Six  daughters  of  C.  L. 


Miller,  Jailerof    Williamson 
siding  at    Marion.     111. 


County,    Illinois,    re- 


Ki't 


SOUVENIR   OF  Wir.LIAMSOX   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


JOE    A.    MEAD,    Marion.  .JOHN    M.    LINES,    Marion. 

Two    Marion    Athletes. 


best  equipped  mines  in  the  state. 
The  Southern  Illinois  Coal  Min- 
ing and  Washing  Company  is  located 
on  the  line  of  the  Chicago  and  East- 
ern Illinois  Railroad,  three  miles 
north  of  Marion.  At  a  depth  of  120 
feet  a  seam  of  coal  was  reached 
which  is  probably  No.  7  of  the  geo- 
logical survey.  The  size  of  the  shaft 
is  17  feet  9  inches  by  10  feet  in  the 
clear,  and  is  situated  on  a  2000- 
acre  tract  of  land,  the  coal  running 
from  9  to  11  feet  in  thickness.  The 
timbers  used  in  the  shaft  are  8x10 
inches,  white  oak.  The  tipple  is 
built  of  steel,  and  was  erected  by  the 
Wisconsin  bridge  and  Iron  Com- 
pany. The  self-dumping  cages  and 
shaker  screens  were  built  by  I.  A. 
Parker,  of  Terre  ante,  Ind.  Elec- 
tric mining  machines  are  used  hav- 
ing a  30  0  horse-power  dynamo  and 
engine.  The  boilers  are  of  the  Mur- 
phy furnace  type,  fou."  in  number, 
600  horse-power,  and  are  fed  by 
automatic  machinery.  The  smoke- 
stack is  built  of  brick  and  Is  100 
feet  high.  The  engine  and  boiler- 
room  is  45x90  feet,  bui'.t  of  hollow 
tile  with  steel  trusses.  The  root  is 
of  fire-proof  material.  There  is  a 
Stewart  coal-washer  in  connection 
with  this  mine,  30  feet  wide  by  100 
feet  long,  with  a  washing  and  un- 
loading capacity  of  17.5  bushels  per 
hour. 

The  Southern  Illinois  Coal  .Min- 
ing and  Washing  Co.,  No.  2,  Marion, 
Illinois.  The  hoisting  of  coal  at 
this  mine  began  in  October,  1901. 
The  mine  is  120  feet  lo  the  coal, 
and  the  size  of  the  shaft  is  10x10 
feet.  The  coal  runs  from  9  to  10 
feet  in  thickness,  and  is  of  a  very 
good  quality,  being  much  freer  from 
sulphur  than  the  majority  of  coals  in 
this   field.      The   top   works  are   con- 


structed entirely  of  steel  with  con- 
crete foundations.  The  engine  and 
boiler  house  is  built  of  hollow  build- 
ing tile,  with  steel  truss  roof  sup' 
porters.  The  smoke-stack  is  bricu, 
100  feet  high,  17  feet  in  diameter  at 
the  base  and  7  feet  at  the  top.  The 
mine  is  equipped  with  Crawford  & 
McCremmon,  first  motion  hoisting 
engines,  20x36  inches,  with  conical 
drum  steam  brake  and  reverse;  also 
a  McEwen  dynamo  engine  and  Link- 
elt  dynamo,  with  sufficient  power  to 
run  14  electric  chainbrest  mining 
machines.  The  steam  power  is  fur- 
nished by  4  tubular  boilers  of  150 
horse-power  each,  equipped  with 
Murphy  furnaces  and  automatic 
stokers.  The  plant  is  well  supplied 
with  fire  pumps  and  sufficient  hose 
to  reach  any  part  of  the  top  works 
in  case  of  fire.  The  washer  was 
completed  in  June,  1902,  and  has  a 
washing  capacity  of  150  0  tons;  this 
is  also  equipped  with  an  unloading 
device,  capable  of  unloading  100 
tons  per  hour.  The  coal  is  screened 
by  a  J.  A.  Parker  Shaker  screen. 
The  fan  is  2  0-foot  with  direct  con- 
nection, and  has  a  capacity  of  ISO,- 
0  00  cubic  feet  of  air  per  minute. 
The  mine  is  now  hoisting  1200  to 
1400  tons  per  day,  and  when  fully 
opened  up  will  have  a  capacity  to 
hoist  2  500  tons  in  8  hours.  The  pit 
cars  hold  3  t-2  tons  and  are  dumped 
and  hoisted  on  automatic  dump 
cages. 

The  New  Ohio  Washed  Coal  Com- 
pany, No.  3,  Carterville,  Illinois. 
The  sinking  of  this  shaft  began  in 
July,  1903,  and  goes  to  a  depth  of 
120  feet.  The  vein  is  9  to  11  feet 
thick  and  the  quality  of  the  coal  is 
full}'  up  to  the  high  standard  of 
which  this  field  is  noted.  The  bed 
lies  along  the  ridge  just  east  of  Car- 


terville. The  mine  is  well  drained, 
comparatively  dry  and  absolutely 
free  from  gas.  The  coal  at  the 
present  time  is  hana-mined,  but  ma- 
chinery will  be  installed  within  a 
comparatively  short  lime.  The  ca- 
pacity, when  fully  developed,  will 
be  2000  tons  daily.  The  equipment 
consists  of  the  very  best  machinery 
and  is  up-to-date  in  every  respect. 
Tipple  is  74  feet  high,  shaker 
screens  which  make  three  sizes  of 
coal,  6-inch  lump,  6-inch  egg  and  3- 
inch  screenings.  The  screenings  are 
shipped  to  the  New  Ohio  Washed 
Coal  Co's  washery,  just  west  ofCar- 
terville,  where  they  are  unloaded 
and  washed  by  the  Luhrig  process. 
Five  diilerent  sizes  of  washed  coal 
are  made,  a  No.  1,  or  washed  egg, 
which  passes  over  a  1  3-4  and 
through  a  3  degree  round  hole;  the 
No.  2,  which  passes  over  a  1  and 
through  a  1  3-4  degree  round  hole; 
the  No.  3,  which  passes  over  a  3-4 
and  through  a  1  degree  round  hole; 
the  No.  4,  which  passes  over  a  1-4 
and  through  a  3-4  degree  round 
hole;  the  No.  5  contains  everything 
that  passes  through  a  1-4  degree 
round  hole.  The  washing  process 
entirely  eliminates  all  slate  and 
other  foreign  matter  which  is  found 
in  raw  coal,  and  makes  an  absolute- 
ly pure  coal  in  every  respect.  This 
mine  has  railroad  connections  with 
both  the  Illinois  Central  and  the 
Missouri  Pacific,  which  allows  of  its 
product  being  shipped  over  a  wide 
area. 


FATAL  MINING  ACCIDENTS. 


Fatal  mining  accidents  occurring 
in  Williamson  County  from  1897  to 
190  4    inclusive: 

Ezzonia  Bondi,  employed  as  a 
miner  at  the  St.  L.  &  B.  M.  Coal 
Company's  Mine  at  Carterville,  was 
fatally  injured  by  a  premature  blast 
May  11th,  1897,  and  died  the  fol- 
lowing day  at  5:30  a.  m.  He  had 
prepared  two  shots  to  fire;  he  lit 
one  and  went  into  the  entry  for 
safety.  He  evidently  heard  a  shot 
fro  man  adjoining  room  and  mis- 
took it  for  his  own,  and  returned  to 
the  room  to  see  what  it  had  done. 
When  within  2  0  feet  of  the  room 
the  shot  went  off  which  caused  the 
injuries  from  which  he  died.  He 
was  a  married  man,  32  years  old, 
and  leaves  a  widow  and  two  chil- 
dren  in   Italy. 

September  16th,  1897,  Fred 
Greinhold,  a  miner  employed  at  the 
Williamson  County  Coal  Company's 
mine  at  Johnson  City,  was  in- 
stantly killed  by  falling  coal.  He 
was  mining  off  a  standing  shot,  and 
being  old  he  was  unable  to  get  out 
of  the  way  of  the  falling  coal.  He 
was  single  and   54   years  old. 

September  2  4,  1S97,  at  the  mine 
of  the  Williamson  County  Coal  Com- 
pany, at  Johnson  City,  a  fire-dump 
explosion  occurred  at  7  a.  m.,  which 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 

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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


HON.    CEO.    AV.    SMITH. 
Marion,  HI. 


killed  Pianli  Fanaro,  aged  45  and 
single;  Charles  Schiller,  aged  34, 
single,  and  Peter  Casper,  aged  37, 
single;  and  seriously  injured  Robert 
Britten  and  Joseph  Barlow.  On  that 
morning  the  men  gathered  at  the  pit 
top  as  usual  for  work.  The  fire 
boss  being  sick,  the  mine  had  not 
been  examined  that  morning.  Caleb 
Davis,  the  mine  manager,  claims  to 
have  told  Peter  Casper  and  others 
who  were  working  in  the  first  and 
second  south  entries  on  the  east  side 
to  remain  at  the  bottom  of  the 
shaft  till  he  could  come  down  and 
examine  their  working  places.  Peter 
Casper  on  reaching  the  bottom,  went 
directly  into  the  first  south  entry 
and  left  his  naked  light  on  the  out- 
side of  the  cross-cut  and  took  off  his 
coat  and  went  to  the  face  and  start- 
ed to  brush  out  the  fire-dump  with 
his  coat.  After  working  at  this  a 
few  minutes  he  returned  and  got 
his  naked  light  and  then  went  and 
got  an  empty  pit-car  and  pushed  it 
towards  the  face.  As  soon  as  he  was 
inside  the  cross-cuts,  a  few  feet  his 
naked  light  came  in  contact  with  the 
fire-dump,  which  caused  a  terrific 
explosion  and  the  death  of  the  four 
miners  mentioned.  The  stoppings, 
doors  and  timbers  of  the  first  and 
second  south  entries  were  blown  in 
all  directions.  Robert  Britton  and 
Joseph  Barlow  were  blown  several 
feet  along  the  main  east  entry,  by 
the  force  of  the  explosion.  Joseph 
Barlow  had  his  leg  broken,  his  flesh 
torn  and  his  head  badly  bruised. 
Robert  Britton  '  had  his  left  arm 
broken.  Caleb  Davis,  mine  mana- 
ger, was  at  the  pit  top  at  the  time 
the  explosion  occurred,  and  as  soon 
as  possible  he  secured  some  practical 
men  and  started  them  to  work  to 
restore  ventilation  by  pulling  np 
temporary      doors      and      stoppings. 


Peter  Casper  walked  alone  to  the 
hottom  of  the  shaft,  though  severe- 
ly burned,  and  was  there  met  by  his 
friends  and  conveyed  to  his  boarding 
house,  where  he  died  on  the  2  6th. 
Frank  Fanero  was  found  dead  in  his 
room  int  he  first  south  entry,  evi- 
dently overcome  by  the  afterdamp, 
and  when  found  was  lying  face 
downward.  It  was  then  supposed 
that  this  was  all  that  were  injured 
by  the  explosion,  and  the  searchers 
went  to  the  top,  but  after  a  few  min- 
utes it  became  known  that  Geneli 
was  missing.  The  party  then  de- 
scended the  shaft  and  searched  for 
him.  They  found  him  dead  in  the 
third  room  from  where  he  was  work- 
ing, toward  the  bottom.  It  was  evi- 
dent he  had  tried  to  find  his  way 
out  after  the  explosion,  but  had  be- 
come bewildered  and  strayed  into 
the  room.  Peter  Casper  said  ;heie 
was  some  one  calling  for  help  and 
light  when  he  was  on  his  way  out. 
The  last  body  was  taken  our,  at  11 
a.  m.  The  company  was  sinking  an 
escapement  at  the  time  of  the  explo- 
sion, which  has  since  been  com- 
pleted. I  visited  the  mine  on  the 
afternoon  of  the  day  of  the  explo- 
sion and  discovered  upon  examina- 
tion of  the  record-book  that  the 
mine  had  not  been  examined  in  the 
morning  before  the  men  were  al- 
lowed to  go  to  work,  nor  had  it  been 
examined  since  the  morning  of 
September  20th,  the  day  on  which 
I  made  my  previous  visit.  'Ihis 
mine  at  the  date  of  this  report  is 
operated  by  A.  W.  Crawford,  lessee. 
December  15,  1897,  John  Coyne, 
aged  44,  single,  by  occupation  a 
miner,  was  suffocated  by  gases  from 
a  coal  fire  in  the  3rd  south  entry  on 
the  east  side  of  mine  No.  2,  of  the 
Scott  Wilson  Coal  Company,  at 
Fredonia.  At  7:30  a.  m.  miners 
working  on  the  east  side  reported  to 
the  mine  manager  that  there  was 
smoke  coming  from  some  of  the  pil- 
lars between  the  second  and  third 
south  entries.  He  immediately  or- 
dered all  the  men  out  of  the  mine 
except  a  few  whom  he  kept  to  lo- 
cate the  fire.  One  of  the  mules  got 
away  from  thed  river  and  ran  into 
the  third  south  entry,  and  was  al- 
lowed to  go,  as  it  was  thought  too 
dangerous  to  go  after  him  on  ac- 
count of  the  smoke.  About  9:30  a. 
m.  John  Coyne  started  in  the  direc- 
tion the  mule  had  taken  and  asked 
some  of  the  men  to  follow  him. 
None,  however,  went.  The  mine 
manager,  on  finding  out  what  Coyne 
had  done,  sent  two  men  in  search  of 
him,  but  they  could  not  find  him  so 
returned.  Another  party  was  or- 
ganized in  the  afternoon  to  go  in 
search  of  Coyne,  and  they  found  him 
dead,  about  6  p.  m.,  in  the  third 
south  entry,  1200  feet  from  the 
main  east  entry,  the  mule  being  a 
little  beyond  the  body  of  Coyne. 
When    the    men    reached    the    switch 


ELDER   DAVIS, 

Pastor    First    Christian   Church,   Car- 

terville.    Illinois. 

with  the  body  of  Coyne  the  mule 
was  close  to  their  heels,  and  seemed 
to  be  unharmed.  The  fire  originat- 
ed among  some  old  timbers  where 
some  one  must  have  changed  lamp- 
cotton,  which  set  fire  to  the  coal. 
This  part  of  the  mine  was  then 
sealed  up  for  three  weeks  and  then 
reopened,  when  it  was  found  that 
the  fire  had  all   died   out. 

July  12,  1S9S,  August  Durbee,  a 
miner,  aged  33  years,  was  killed  in- 
stantly by  a  fall  of  slate  at  the  face 
of  his  working  place  in  shaft  No.  7, 
operated  by  the  Big  Muddy  Coal  and 
Iron  Company  at  Herrin,  leav-ing  a 
wife  and  four  children.  The  de- 
ceased was  working  off  a  standing 
shot,  which  was  the  only  support  to 
the  broken  roof.  The  piece  of  slate 
that  fell  on  him  would  weigh  fully 
three  tons. 

September  27,  1S9S,  Jes  Maris,  a 
miner,  aged  29  years,  single,  em- 
ployed at  the  Scott-Wilson  Coal  Co. 
shaft  No.  2.  Fredonia,  was  cleaning 
up  a  fall  of  slate  that  had  come 
down  the  night  before,  on  top  of 
some  loose  coal.  He  sounded  the 
roof  before  starting  to  work  and 
made  the  remark  that  it  was  all 
right,  but  in  a  few  minutes  after- 
ward a  piece  of  roof  weighing  about 
1000  pounds  suddenly  fell,  striking 
him  on  the  back.  He  was  taken  to 
his  boarding  house,  and  died  from 
his  injuries  at  5:30  p.  m.  the  same 
day. 

November  24,  1S9S,  Edgar  McAl- 
phin.  laborer,  age  2  3.  married,  was 
killed  in.  the  mine  of  the  Ohio  and 
Mississippi  Valley  Coal  and  Mining 
Company.  Marion,  leaving  a  widow 
and  one  child.  He  was  coming  out 
of  the  shaft  on  the  cage  with  four 
other  men,  and  when  about  50  feet 
up,  lost  his  balance  and  fell  into  the 
west    chamber    and   down    the   shaft. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLINOIS. 


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This  was  only  his  third  day  in  the 
mine. 

December  21,  189S,  James  Van- 
sage,  miner,  aged  'Jo  years,  mar- 
ried, was  Ivilled  while  at  work  in  a 
pillar  in  the  mine  of  the  St.  L.  and 
.  M.  Coal  Co.,  at  Carterville,  leaving 
a  wife  and  three  children.  He  was 
working  off  some  coal  that  had  been 
shattered  by  a  shot  the  night  before, 
when  a  piece  of  lop  coal,  weighing 
about  2  00  pounds,  fell,  crushing  his 
head   against   a   pit-car  close  by. 

August  5th,  1S99,  A.  McNeal. 
miner,  aged  2  8  years,  was  instantly 
killed  in  room  9,  first  south  entry, 
by  a  fall  of  slate  in  the  Big  Muddy 
Coal  and  Iron  Company's  No.  7 
mine  at  Herrin.  Deceased  had  fired 
his  shot,  and  instead  of  waiting  a 
reasonable  time  for  the  powder 
smoke  to  clear  aw-ay  so  that  he  couli 
examine  the  roof,  he  returned  to  the 
room  with  the  intention  of  lighting 
another  shot,  but  when  he  got  with- 
in a  few  feet  of  the  face  of  the 
room  a  piece  of  slate  fell,  killing 
him  instantly.  He  leaves  a  widow 
and  five  children. 

January  9,  1901,  Noah  Morgan, 
driver,  aged  20  years,  single,  was 
killed  instantly  by  being  caught  be- 
tween a  pit-car  and  the  side  of  the 
entry,  in  the  Big  Muddy  Coal  and 
Iron  Company's  mine  No.  7,  at  Her- 
rin. The  deceased  was  making  his 
last  trip  before  dinner  and  was  rid- 
ing on  the  front  end  of  the  empty 
car,  driving  at  full  speed,  when  the 
car  left  the  track  with  the  result 
stated. 

January  14,  1902,  William  Butch- 
er, driver,  aged  2  7  years,  married, 
was  killed  by  being  caught  between 
a  loaded  pit-car  and  the  side  of  the 
entry  in  the  mine  of  the  Chicago  and 
Carterville  Coal  Co.  at  Herrin.  He 
was  hauling  a  loaded  pit-car  through 
a  cross-cut  from  the  second  west 
entry  to  the  first  west  entry  on  the 
north  side.  In  attempting  to  get 
onto  the  front  end  of  the  car  he 
slipped  and  was  caught  between  the 
car  and  the  side  of  the  entry.  He 
died  within  a  few  minutes,  leaving  a 
widow  and   one  child. 

January  29,  1902,  C.  B.  Carney, 
miner,  aged  5  2  years,  married,  was 
instantly  killel  by  being  struck  on 
the  head  and  body  with  coal  from  a 
blast  in  the  Carterville  Coal  Com- 
pany's mines.  He  had  prepared  a 
blast  and  when  firing  time  came  in 
the  evening,  he  went  to  light  his 
shot.  The  instant  he  put  his  lamp 
to  the  squib  the  shot  exploded. 
Whether  this  was  due  to  a  defective 
squib  or  that  the  deceased  pushed 
his  lamp  under  the  powder  part  of 
the  squib  is  not  known.  He  leaves  a 
wife  and   seven   children. 

January  29.  1902.  Abraham  Buck- 
les, miner,  aged  41.  single,  was  se- 
verely injured  by  being  struck  on 
the  head  with  loose  coal  from  a 
blast  in  the  St.  L.  &  B.  M.  Go's,  mine 


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Who    Murdered     Mrs.    Nellie   Reichelderfer,    March    16,    1903. 


at  Dewmaine.  He  had  gone  into  his 
room  to  light  a  shot  and  in  making 
his  retreat  was  struck  by  flying  coal. 
It  is  not  known  whether  he  was 
struck  by  coal  from  his  own  blast  or 
from  the  adjoining  room,  as  it  was 
found  upon  examination  that  a  blast 
in  an  adjoining  room  had  blown 
through  the  pillar  at  the  time  of  the 
accident.  He  died  from  his  injuries 
five  hours   later. 

February  24,  19o2,  Aleck  Calca- 
tarra,  a  miner,  aged  41  years,  mar- 
ried, was  severely  injured  about  the 
body  by  a  fall  of  slate  in  the  B.  M. 
C.  &  I.  Co's.  shaft  No.  7,  Herrin.  He 
was  cautioned  by  the  mine  ex- 
aminer to  be  careful  of  some  loose 
slate  at  the  face  of  his  working 
place.  In  reply  he  said  that  he 
could  take  care  of  himself.  He  was 
mining  off  some  coal  that  had  been 
loosened  by  a  blast  the  previous  day 
when  the  slate  fell,  which  caused  his 
death  five  hours  later. 

June  2  6,  19  0  2,  Charles  Wheel,  a 
miner,  aged  54  years,  was  instant- 
ly killed  by  flying  coal  in  the  Car- 
terville Coal  Co'c.  mine.  He  had 
prepared  a  blast  in  his  room,  which 
was  about  40  feet  in  from  the  en- 
try. When  firing  time  came  he  went 
into  the  room  and  lit  the  squib.  It 
is  presumed  he  became  bewildered, 
and  instead  of  coming  out  into  the 
entry  he  went  down  the  face  of  the 
room.  When  the  shot  exploded  he 
was  struck  by  the  flying  coal.  The 
deceased  had  a  family  somewhere  in 
the  West. 


at  Marion  January  17,  1887,  and  is 
therefore  but  IS  years  old.  He 
owns  and  runs  the  laundry  on  Bundy 
Place,  and  is  probably  the  youngest 
man  doing  business  in  his  own  name 
in  the  County.  He  is  a  most  dili- 
gent student,  and  will  graduate  from 
the  High  School  in  1906.  He  is  an 
expert  sprinter  and  all-round  ath- 
lete, doing  a  50  yard  dash  in  5  2-5 
seconds.  He  is  right  half-back  in 
the  High  School  Champion  Football 
Team  of  19o4,  which  he  joined  when 
he  entered  High  School.  He  has 
also  belonged  to  the  base  ball  and 
track  teams  the  same  period.  He 
has  never  used  alcohol  in  any  form 
or  tobacco,  and  his  muscles  are  as 
hard    as    iron. 


JOE   A.    MEAD,   Laundryman. 


This      promising   young      business 
man,   student   and   athlete,   was  born 


THE    MURDER    OF     MRS.    NELLIE 

REICHELDERFER,    March 

16,    1903. 

This  foul  crime  was  committed  by 
two  boys,  only  about  21  years  of 
age,  for  the  sole  purpose  of  robbery. 
They  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  Herrin 
in  Franklin  County,  and  were 
idlers  but  apparently  not  vicious 
nor  drunken.  Their  parents  were 
respectable  people  but  poor  and  il- 
literate, and  the  boys  seem  not  to 
have  had  any  moral  or  religious 
training.  They  broke  into  a  neigh- 
bor's house  and  stole  the  gun  with 
which  the  deed  was  committed.  They 
went  to  the  house  of  the  victim,  who 
was  a  widow  living  with  her  daugh- 
ter, in  broad  daylight,  and  Price 
fired  the  fatal  shot.  They  then  ran- 
sacked the  house  and  took  a  few 
rings  and  other  trifles  and  then  re- 
turned to  the  hog-lot,  where  the 
body  of     their  victim    lay,   and     ex- 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


aniined  it  for  money,  but  they  were 
disappointed,  as  Mrs.  Reichelderfer 
had  not  sold  the  farm  as  reported, 
and  had  no  money.  At  their  trial 
they  seemed  utterly  indifferent  and 
stoical,  and  even  joked,  sang  comic 
songs  and  danced,  and  were  jolly 
while  the  gallows  was  being  erected 
within  sound  of  their  cells.  They 
paid  the  penalty  for  their  crime  on 
Friday,   June    12th,    1903. 

Judge  O.  A.  Harker  tried  the  case, 
L.  D.  Hartwell,  States  Attorney; 
Joseph  W.  Hartwell,  Assistant;  H. 
S.  Harris,  Sheriff;  Frank  Throg- 
morton,  Deputy;  E.  N.  Rice,  coro- 
ner; W.  S.  Miller,  jailor;  D.  T.  Hart- 
well, City  Attorney,  who  assisted  in 
securing  evidence  and  the  confes- 
sions  of    the    murderers. 

Except  to  experts  in  phrenology 
and  physiognomy,  the  half-tone  por- 
traits herein  shown  do  not  indicate 
unusual  depravity  in  these  two  boys, 
and  they  were  probably  not  such. 
There  are  hundreds  like  them  in 
every  community,  untrained,  undis- 
ciplined, natural  sons  of  evil,  who 
escape  the  gallows  only  by  a  miracle. 


JOHN   M.    LINES 


Groceryman's    Clerk,   N.    Market    St., 
near   Goodall    Avenue. 


This  promising  young  merchant 
was  born  near  Marion  March  13th, 
1SS5.  He  still  attends  High  School, 
from  which  he  will  graduate  next 
term.  He  is  a  good  student  and  an 
industrious  and  faithful  worker,  and 
for  the  last  four  years  has  had 
charge  of  his  father's  store  during 
vacation.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Marion  Base  Ball  Track  Team  and  is 
besides  a  great  sprinter.  He  is  par- 
ticularly strong  on  the  100  yards 
and  the  2  20  yards  race,  running  the 
latter  in  2  2  2-5  seconds.  It  is  need- 
less to  add  that  he  is  of  good  moral 
character,  good  habits  and  has  a 
promising  future  before  him. 


SKETCH  OF  MRS.  JOHN  A.  LOGAN 


I  was  born  in  Petersburg,  Boone 
County,  Missouri,  on  the  15th  day 
of  August,  1S38.  The  town  in  which 
I  was  born  is  no  more,  but  in  its 
stead  there  has  arisen  the  present 
flourishing  town  of  Sturgeon.  I  am 
of  Irish-French  descent,  my  mother's 
maiden  name  being  La  Fontaine,  my 
father's  that  of  Cunningham.  My 
father  was  Captain  J.  M.  Cunning- 
ham. My  mother's  maiden  name 
was    Elizabeth    Hicks    La    Fontaine. 

They  returned  to  the  State  of  Il- 
linois when  it  was  a  territory,  my 
father  and  mother  liberating  the 
slaves  they  had  held  in  the  State  of 
Missouri.  We  resided  at  Marion, 
Williamson  County,  Illinois,  during 
my  childhood,  but  subsequently,  my 
father  being  made  Registrar  of  the 
I..and    Office     at    Shawneetown.     Illi- 


nois, under  Pierce's  administration, 
we  removeJ  to  that  place.  I  attend- 
ed school  at  the  Convent  of  Saint 
Vincent,  near  Uniontown,  Kentucky, 
which  is  a  branch  of  the  far-famed 
Nazareth  School,  graduating  from 
that  school  in  1855.  I  came  home 
and  soon  after  met  my  husband, 
(ieneral  John  A.  Logan,  who  served 
during  the  War  with  Mexico  with 
my  father,  and  to  whom  I  am  said 
to  have  been  given  by  my  father 
when  I  was  a  child.  We  were  mar- 
ried on  the  2  7th  day  of  November, 
1S55. 

I  was  very  young  when  we  were 
married  and  little  suited  for  the 
duties  and  responsibilities  of  the 
wife  of  a  promising  young  attorney. 
We  removed  to  Franklin,  Benton 
County,  Illinois,  as  my  husband  was 
then  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  the 
third  Judicial  District  of  the  State 
of  Illinois,  which  embraced  sixteen 
counties.  In  those  days  we  were  not 
furnished  with  the  blanks  for  every- 
thing as  we  are  today,  and  I  began 
to  assist  my  husband  in  writing  in- 
dictments for  minor  offenses,  and  in 
that  way  gradually  drifted  into  tak- 
ing part  in  everything  which  he  did. 

We  had  the  same  struggle  that  all 
young  people  without  money  had  in 
those  early  days,  but  the  fact  that  in 
1858  my  husband  was  elected  to 
Congress  shows  that  we  were  not  al- 
together unsuccessful.  At  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  Rebellion,  General 
Logan  was  still  a  member  of  Con- 
gress from  the  old  District.  His 
history  is  well  known.  I  can  only 
claim  to  have  made  the  best  fight 
possible  at  home  surrounded  by 
very  bitter  political  opponents,  who 
sympathized  very  strongly  with  the 
Rebellion,  and  who,  from  regarding 
General  Logan  as  little  less  than  an 
idol,  became  his  bitter  enemies  and 
persecuted  him  and  his  adherents 
in  the  vilest  manner  they  could.  I 
am  glad,  however,  that  in  the  end 
they  repented  of  their  rash  acts  and 
became   his  devoted   friends. 

During  these  five  years  1  went 
through  everything  that  a  human 
being  could  endure,  but  had  the 
satisfaction  of  aiding  him  in  his  own 
magnificent  efforts  to  succeed  and  in 
the  conversion  of  his  oil  friends  to 
the  support  of  the  Government  and 
his  political  aspirations. 

After  the  War  he  was  elected  to 
Congress  again  from  the  State  at 
large,  and  we  came  hack  to  Wash- 
ington and  for  more  than  twenty 
years  we  worked  day  and  night  to- 
gether. We  had  very  much  pleasure 
in  this  work  and  our  meed  of  suc- 
cess. Through  it  all  I  have  the  con- 
scientious gratification  of  knowing 
that  I  did  the  best  that  I  could  and 
have  no  regrets,  except  that  I  am 
sorry  I  had  not  the  ability  and  power 
to  do  more  to  aid  in  his  career. 

He  devoted  his  whole  life  to  the 
public    service    and    advancement    of 


the  welfare  of  his  country  and  his 
friends,  and  if  I  had  any  share  in  It 
I  have  been  well  repaid  by  his  gen- 
erous recognition  of  all  I  tried  to 
do.  Since  his  death  I  have  devoted 
myself  absolutely  to  the  perpetua- 
tion of  his  memory  and  in  trying  to 
prove  that  I  was  worthy  of  the  great 
confidence  which  he  had  in  me  and 
his  partial   estimation  of   my  ability. 

There  were  three  children  born  to 
us.  The  first  born  died  when  he  was 
one  year  old;  the  second,  now  Mrs. 
Mary  Logan  Tucker,  wife  of  Lt.  Col. 
W.  F.  Tucker,  U.  S.  Army,  has  two 
sons,  one  twenty-five  and  one  thir- 
teen years  of  age. 

Our  beloved  son.  Major  John  A. 
Logan,  Jr.,  servel  during  the  Cuban 
War  as  an  Adjutant  General  on  the 
staff  of  General  John  C.  Bates,  re^ 
turning  at  the  close  of  the  cam- 
paign more  dead  than  alive  from 
malarial  fever.  I  met  him  at  Mon- 
tauk  Point  and  brought  him  home 
and  nursed  him  back  to  health.  Hos- 
tilities being  renewed  in  the  Phil- 
ippines, he  insisted  upon  again  en- 
tering the  army,  and  was  appointed 
Major  of  the  33rd  U.  S.  Infantry, 
reaching  Manilla  October  29th, 
1899.  He  succeeded  in  getting  their 
regiment  assigned  to  the  command 
of  General  Lloyd  Wheaton  and  went 
immediately  to  northern  Luzon; 
making  the  first  reconnoitre  of  the 
command  he  secured  the  advance  of 
the  attack  upon  the  entrenched  Fil- 
ipinos at  San  Jacinto  and  was  killed 
by  a  Filipino  who  was  secreted  in 
the  top  of  a  tree  which  towered 
above  his  battalion  as  he  was  lead- 
ing them  in  a  charge,  falling  as  he 
would  have  fallen  on  the  very  point 
of  his  advancing  battalion.  They 
subsequently  routed  the  enemy.  In 
his  death  I  lost  my  all,  and  can 
never  again  have  the  same  interest 
in  life,  as  he  was,  in  the  sense  that 
he  bore  his  father's  name  and 
lineage,  my  idol.  He  left  a  widow 
and  three  lovely  children,  two  girls 
and  a  boy,  John  A.  Logan,  III.  But 
for  the  tenderness  and  sympathy  ac- 
corded me  by  the  nation  I  could  not 
have  survived  this  second  over- 
whelming blow. 

I  have  written  for  a  number  of 
periodicals,  edited  The  Home  Maga- 
zine for  six  years,  and  am  sorry  to 
say  through  the  mismanagement  of 
one  of  its  proprietors  it  was  discon- 
tinued, but  not  without  having 
scored  the  phenominal  success  of 
reaching  three-hundred  thousand 
subscribers.  It  has  been  revived 
and  I  am  again  associate  editor 
with  P.  V.  Collins,  of  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  its  present  proprietor 
and  publisher,  and  hope  to  win  back 
my  old  friends  and  many  new  ones 
to   its    support. 

I  am  now  and  have  been  for  more 
than  two  years  on  the  editorial  staff 
of  the  Hearst  Syndicate,  of  New 
York. 


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ORIGINAI.    SrRVEY    OF    MARION.    ILL. 


I  have  never  been  identified  with 
any  organization,  except  being  a 
member  of  the  Woman's  Relief 
Corps,  auxiliary  to  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  and  a  member  of 
the  Spanish  War  Veteran's  Auxili- 
ary, because  I  have  always  felt  that 
I  could  do  better  if  I  helped  all  or- 
ganizations the  best  that  I  could 
without  bein.g  a  member,  or  in  any 
way  identified  with  them  in  the  mat- 
ter of  election  of  officers,  etc.  I 
have  always  tried  to  do  all  the  char- 
ity In  my  power,  and  have  done  my 
best  to  help  deserving  women  in 
their  efforts  to  be  self-sustaining.  I 
cannot  but  feel  that  we  must  count 
it  very  little  that  we  can  do  in  this 
world  We  are  always  under  obliga- 
tions in  having  received  more  than 
we  have  been  able  to  give. 

My  greatest  ambition  after  Gen- 
eral Logan's  death  was  to  live  to 
see  the  completion  and   unveiling  of 


the  great  statue.s  erected  to  his 
memory  in  Chicago  and  Washing- 
ton, and  it  is  a  source  of  infinite 
gratification  to  me  to  have  had  my 
prayers  answered.  These  statues 
are  without  question  the  very  best 
in  the  United  tSates  and  were  un- 
veiled under  the  most  gratifying  aus- 
pices. The  orations  on  the  occa- 
sions of  the  unveilings  by  Hon.  Geo. 
R.  Peck  in  Chicago,  and  President 
McKinley  and  Hon.  Chauncey  De- 
pew  in  Washington  have  been  pro- 
nounced classic  tributes  to  General 
Logan,  and  I  should  be  ungrateful 
and  insatiable  in  my  desire  were  I 
not   satisfied. 

I  have  traveled  very  much  in 
Europe  since  General  Logan's  death 
for  study  and  for  occupation  away 
from  the  channels  which  had  so 
many  sad  memories  for  me.  I  have 
met  nearly  all  the  Crowned  Heads 
of    Europe.         In    1896,    I    had      the 


pleasure  of  witnessing  the  Corna- 
tion  of  the  Czar  and  Czarina  of  Rus- 
sia and  also  seeing  the  Queen  Re- 
gent of  Spain,  and  consider  myself 
very  fortunate  in  having  visited 
that  country  before  the  Spanish- 
American    War. 

During  the  summer  of  1904,  be- 
tween June  10th  and  August  2  9th,  I 
gave  thirty  lectures  before  Chautau- 
quas  and  assemblies  in  the  states  of 
Illinois,  Indiana,  Ohio,  AViseonsin, 
Michigan.  Iowa,  Kansas  and  South 
Dakota,  traveling  over  twenty-five 
thousand  miles  to  fill  these  engage- 
ments without  having  experienced 
any  excessive  fatigue  or  ill  health 
from  the  labor  required  to  perform 
the  arduous  work  necessary  to  ac- 
complish so  much  in  so  short  a  time. 

My  health  is  perfect,  thanks  to 
Him  who  holds  us  all  in  the  hollow 
of  His  hand. 

I  have  very  much  for  which  to  be 


166 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLNOLS. 


thankful,  having  enjoyed  the  confi- 
dence and  respect  of  all  in  authority 
and  position  in  my  own  country  and 
abroad,  and  feel  that  I  owe  it  all  to 
the  honored  name  I  bear,  which  has 
been  made  illustrious  by  husband 
and  son,  John  A.  Logan  3rd,  Major 
Logan's  son,  being  the  sole  repre- 
sentative in  the  male  line  left  to 
perpetuate  the  name. 

1  hope  in  the  few  brief  years  left 
to  me  to  do  something  with  my  pen 
to  aid  in  the  advancement  of  that 
civilization  for  which  husband  and 
son  offered  up  their  precious  lives. 
MARY   I.   LOGAN. 

Copied  from  the  British  Weekly, 
August  5,  1S97,  from  an  interview 
with  Rev.  Hugh  Johnston,  Pastor 
Metropolitan  Church,  Dr.  Milburn 
joining  when  they  attended  the 
Ecumenical  Council: 
Most  Popular  Woman  in  the  States. 

"At  this  point  Dr.  Milburn,  who 
was  dreamily  reposing  in  his  arm- 
chair, joined  in  the  conversation  to 
tell  me  about  his  old  friend  Mrs. 
Logan,  whom  he  described  as  cer- 
tainly the  most  popular  women  in 
Washington,  and  perhaps  in  the 
United  States.  'She  is  simply  wor- 
shipped by  the  old  soldiers,  and  she 
exercises  the  widest  influence  both 
as  a  writer  and  as  a  speaker.  She 
is  a  diplomatist  and  a  politician,  and 
can  give  an  excellent  lecture.  At 
Dr.  Johnson's  church  last  year  she 
lectured  on  the  Cza'-'s  Coronation  at 
which  I  was  present.  Mrs.  Logan  is 
a  beautiful  lady,  striking,  even 
queenly,  in  appearance,  with  perfect- 
ly white  hair.  Her  manners  are 
charming  and  she  is  equally  kind  to 
all  sorts  and  conditions  of  people,  I 
must  tell  you  a  little  story,  if  Dr. 
Johnston  will  not  mind,  about  one 
of  her  receptions  in  the  quaint,  old- 
fashioned  house  in  the  western  part 
of  our  city,  which  was  presented  to 
Mrs.  Logan  by  the  nation.  These 
receptions  are  among  the  most  in- 
teresting social  functions  in  Wash- 
ington, and  it  is  her  custom  to  in- 
vite to  them  a  number  of  ladies  be- 
longing to  what  we  in  America  call 
the  "awkward  squad,"  that  is,  per- 
sons of  no  recognized  social  footing. 
Mrs.  Logan  invites  them  ostensibly 
to  help  her  to  entertain,  but  really 
to  give  them  a  little  social  enjoy- 
ment. One  day  when  a  large  party 
was  assembled,  and  Mrs.  Logan  was 
standing  at  the  door  receiving  her 
guests,  a  most  valuable  vase,  a  pres- 
ent from  Japan  or  China,  about  five 
feet  high,  was  knocked  over  by  the 
train  of  one  of  these  awkward  ladies' 
dresses  and  smashed  into  a  thous' 
and  fragments.  Everyone  was  in 
consternation,  and  the  unfortunate 
culprit,  standing  near  the  fireplace, 
looked  ready  to  sink  into  the  floor. 
Mrs.  Logan  turned  around  and  said 
with  charming  readiness,  "Oh.  my 
dear,  I  am  so  pleased  you  have  got- 


ten rid  of  that  wretched  old  vase  for 
me.  I  really  was  quite  tired  of  the 
thing."  There  was  a  general  laugh. 
A  servant  came  to  clear  away  the 
fragments,  and  the  incident  was 
speedily    forgotten.  Mrs.    Logan's 

house  is  a  museum  of  treasures, 
many  of  them  gifts  presented  in  the 
lifetime  of  her  husband.'   " 

Holly  Hills  Farm, 
Near    Hyattsville,    Maryland, 

October    12,    1904. 
Mr.   J.   F.   Wilcox,   Marion,  111. 

My  dear  Mr.  Wilcox: — I  send  you 
herewith  four  sketches  instead  of  the 
two  which  I  promised  you,  as  I 
supposed  that  you  wished  to  have 
something  of  the  family.  I  am  very 
sorry  to  have  kept  you  waiting  so 
long,  and  hope  that  it  is  not  too  late 
to  incorporate  them  in  the  book  you 
design  publishing.  I  have  not  at- 
tempted to  elaborate  or  make  them 
as  full  as  I  might  have  because  I 
was  afraid  they  would  be  too  long 
for  your  purpose. 

It  has  given  me  a  great  deal  of 
pleasure  to  prepare  these  sketches 
for  you,  and  I  hope  they  will  prove 
satisfactory. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

MRS.  JOHN  A.  LOGAN. 


SKETCH  OF  GEX.  JOHN  A.  LOGAN 
By   Mrs.   John   A.    Logan. 

General  Logan's  youth  was  per- 
haps spent  under  more  favorable 
auspices  than  that  of  many  others  of 
that  epoch  of  our  country.  His 
superior  abilities,  energy,  and  high 
character  made  him  a  leader  from 
boyhood.  His  father,  of  Scotch- 
Irish  descent,  was  a  strict  disciplina- 
rian with  his  sons,  who  knew  no  dis- 
loyalty to  his  will  or  commands. 

At  the  age  of  IS,  he  entered  the 
volunteer  service  as  a  private  in 
Company  H,  1st  Illinois  Infantry 
Regiment,  in  the  war  with  Mexico. 
He  rose  to  the  position  of  1st  Lieu- 
tenant and  Adjutant  of  the  Regi^ 
ment  before  his  return,  and  here  re- 
ceived all  the  military  training  he 
ever  had.  After  returning  home  his 
father  decided  that  he  should  adopt 
the  profession  of  law.  After  study 
ing  with  his  uncle,  Ex-Governor  A. 
M.  Jenkins,  he  went  to  Louisville  to 
attend  the  law  school  of  that  city. 
y  strict  economy  and  judicious  trad- 
ing in  horses  and  other  stock  on  the 
farm  which  had  been  assigned  him 
as  his  share  for  his  services,  he  had 
saved  enough  money  to  pay  his  own 
way. 

From  the  day  of  his  graduation  to 
the  day  of  his  father's  death,  he 
never  received  a  penny  from  his 
father,  but  contributed  toward  the 
consummation  of  many  of  his  fath' 
er's  business  projects.  His  father 
made  a  will  dividing  his  property  be- 
tween the  widow  and  his  children 
except      "John      .Alexander,      whose 


marked  abilities  are  such  that  he 
can  provide  for  himself  and  aid  his 
mother  if  necessary, — this  provision 
is  made  not  from  want  of  affection, 
but  because  of  unbounded  confidence 
in  his  future  success." 

Gen.  Logan  appreciated  iiis  fath- 
er's trust,  and  was  always  mindful 
of  that  faith  in  him. 

Traveling  as  a  circuit  lawyer  over 
sixteen  counties  composing  his  judi- 
cial district  required  untiring  en- 
ergy. Practicing  in  criminal  law 
and  prosecuting  criminals  was  no 
easy  or  safe  task  in  the  days  of  the 
Regulators  in  Southern  Illinois.  He 
was  constantly  exposed  to  the  ven- 
geance of  the  friends  of  the  many 
evil  doers  whose  conviction  and 
punishment  he  caused.  His  partici- 
pation in  politics  was  not  of  his  own 
seeking,  but  a  surrender  to  the 
pressure  of  the  better  element  of 
society.  Serving  as  clerk  of  the 
court,  prosecuting  attorney,  Mem- 
ber of  the  State  Legislature  and  of 
Congress  by  the  time  he  was  32,  he 
threw  his  whole  soul  into  every- 
thing he  undertook,  never  hesitating 
to  assume  responsibility  or  wa  ting 
for  some  else  to  take  the  initiative 
to  find  out  how  the  public  would  re- 
ceive the  measure. 

Douglas  was  his  iioliiiral  mentor. 
He  follov/ed  him  with  absolute 
loyalty  through  his  eventful  career, 
believing  in  Douglas's  devotion  to 
his  country  and  its  best  interests. 
He  had  faith  in  the  ultimate  succe;!s 
of  the  "Crittenden  Compromise."  He 
could  not  believe  that  the  threaten- 
ing storm  would  end  in  a  tornado. 
He  thought  his  constituency  loyal  to 
their  country  and  to  him.  He  had 
been  elected  by  so  overwhelmiag  a 
majority  that  he  could  not  realize 
that  in  a  few  brief  months  they 
would  become  so  excited  as  to  lose 
all  reason  or  thought  of  the  conse- 
quences of  treason.  The  most  try- 
ing hour  of  his  whole  early  life  was 
rapidly  approaching;  the  memory  of 
that  hour  will  abide  while  life  lasts. 
Idolized  by  kin 'red  and  ihe  pi^ople, 
he  had  left  his  home  for  Washing- 
ton: returning  he  was  received  with 
coldness  and  unfriendly  re.nings. 
And  when  he  crossed  the  threshold 
of  his  mother's  home  to  embrace  her 
whom  he  adored  with  the  warmest 
filial  affection  and  was  repulsed  and 
upbrai'led,  his  strong  frame  shook 
with  emotion  and  the  tears  ran  down 
like  rain.  With  only  one  faithful 
tie  he  could  trust,  he  faced  the  as- 
sembled multitude  and  announced 
his  intention  to  stand  by  his  coun- 
try though  the  heavens  should  fall — - 
he  was  ready  to  do  and  die  if  need 
be  that  the  ITnion  might  be  pre- 
served. Standing  between  the  tor- 
rents that  were  rapidly  swelling,  he 
had  to  bear  all  the  bitterness  of  the 
Democratic  party  and  all  the  sus- 
picious scoffings  and  unfavorable 
prognostications  of   the   Republicans, 


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167 


because  of  his  extreme  partisanship 
as  a  Democrat  before  the  time  ar- 
rived when  a  man  had  to  be  for  or 
against  his  country.  The  agony  of 
the  battle's  most  sanguinary  mo- 
ment paled  before  the  anguish  of 
those  days  and  weeks  until  he  had 
saved  his  people  and  his  constituents 
for  the  Union. 

He  carried  with  him  until  peace 
was  declared  a  feeling  of  personal 
responsibility  for  the  welfare  of 
every  man  who  enlisted  in  the  de- 
fense of  his  country  at  his  solicita- 
tion and  because  of  his  appeal  for 
the  Union,  and  was  really  held  so 
by  their  friends  at  home.  His  sym- 
pathies were  so  great  that  he  had  to 
school  himself  by  the  severest  disci- 
pline before  he  could  witness  the 
suffering  of  the  wounded  or  death  of 
the  men  under  him  without  betray- 
ing his  emotion.  The  charge  at 
Vicksburg  on  the  22nd  of  May,  IS63, 
was  to  him  so  ill  advised  and  unwise 
that  it  taxed  all  his  discretion  to 
obey  the  orders.  To  the  day  of  his 
death,  he  felt  that  the  charges  of 
Kenesaw  Mountain  and  the  22nd  of 
July,  1864,  were  a  needless  sacrifice 
of  life,  and  yet  in  each  he  led  the 
charge  and  was  the  last  to  leave  the 
field,  fortunately  turning  disaster 
into  victory  after  McPherson  fell 
with  the  potential  cry  of  "McPher- 
son  and   Revenge." 

General  Logan  received  from  Con- 
gress a  medal  for  personal  heroism 
on  the  field  at  Vicksburg,  and  should 
have  had  another  for  his  conspicuous 
gallantry  on  the  22nd  of  July,  1S64, 
in  avenging  the  death  of  McPherson. 
Thousands  of  men  were  inspired  to 
dauntless  deeds  that  day  by  General 
Logan's  daring,  and  though  almost 
surrounded  by  the  enemy,  he  drove 
them  back,  recovered  McPherson's 
body  and  won  a  glorious  victory 
which  had  its  sequel  in  the  fall  of 
Atlanta  soon  afterwards. 

A  few  days  thereafter  he  suffered 
the  keenest  blow  of  his  whole  life  in 
being  unjustly  deprived  of  the  com- 
mand of  the  army  he  had  saved  from 
annihilation  and  which  would  have 
followed  him  into  the  jaws  of  death. 
A  less  heroic  and  loyal  spirit  would 
have  encouraged  the  resentment  he 
I  felt,  and  might  have  caused  ulti- 
mate disaster  to  our  nrmy,  but  his 
noble  nature  recoiled  at  such  action 
and  he  quietly  returned  to  I'le  gal- 
lant 15th  Army  Corps  and  again  led 
it  to  victory  on  the  2Sth  of  July. 
which  broke  down  the  barriers  to 
the  very  citidel  of  Atlanta,  forcing 
acknowledgments  of  his  superior 
military  skill  and  intrepid  courage 
from  even  his  successor  in  the  com- 
mand of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee. 

Scarcely  had  the  smoke  of  battle 
passed  over  and  the  surrender  of 
Atlanta  been  telegraphed  when 
Abraham  Lincoln  requested  General 
Logan's  presence  in  the  sanguinary 
political    contest    then    being    waged 


in  Illinois,  the  home  of  the  McClel- 
lan  War  Democrats  as  well  as  his 
own.  Hastening  to  obey  an  intima- 
tion from  Mr.  Lincoln  in  that  criti- 
cal hour,  he  reached  home  in  Sep- 
tember, entering  upon  the  campaign 
the  next  day  after  his  arrival,  as  ef- 
fectually turning  civilians  from 
their  party  idols  to  the  support  of 
Mr.  Lincoln  by  his  eloquence  on  the 
stump  as  he  had  the  secession  of 
sympathizers  at  the  beginning  of  the 
rebellion. 

As  soon  as  the  election  waa  over 
he  asked  to  be  returned  io  his  com- 
mand which  had  completed  its  holi- 
c'ay  march  through  Geori?ia  and  the 
Carolinas,  and  was  then  at  Beaufort, 
S.  C.  Thomas  had  been  General 
during  that  fall  in  Tennesse,  while 
Grant  was  busy  in  the  east  and  was 
at  that  time  at  City  Point,  from 
which  place  he  telegraphed  through 
Stanton  ordering  General  Logan  to 
come  to  Washington  as  he  wished 
to  have  a  conference  with  him. 
General  Logan  obeyed  with  all  pos- 
sible speed,  thinking  he  was  to  be 
hurried  to  his  command  to  co-oper- 
ate with  some  move  tow.ird  Rich- 
mond, but  was  amazed  to  find  that 
even  at  headquarters  nuir:i  impa- 
tience existed  on  account  of  Ceneral 
Thomas'  supposed  dilatoriness,  and 
that  he  (General  Logan)  hr.d  been 
chosen  to  supersede  litu.  as  no  one 
doubted  General  Logan's  iuipai'ent 
action  at  all  times — action  waf.  his 
motto.  But  with  the  recent  injus- 
tice done  him.  his  sympathies  were 
too  keenly  alive  for  a  brother  officer 
for  him  to  desire  to  relieve  General 
Thomas."  besides,  he  believed  Gen- 
eral Thomas  was  making  all  possible 
haste:  and  so.  with  the  privilege  of 
exercising  his  judgment  in  t!;e  mat- 
ter, should  he  find  that  General 
Thomas  was  doing  all  he  could  and 
would  move  as  soon  as  possible. 
General  Logan  set  out  for  Louisville 
with  his  orders  in  his  pocket  to  re- 
lieve General  Thomas.  The  fir?l 
thing  General  Logan  did  on  his  ar- 
rival at  Louisville  was  to  advise 
General  Thomas  of  all  the  facts  and 
urge  him  to  strike  immediately  un- 
less he  was  sure  it  would  be  fatal. 
General  Thomas  moved  at  once  and 
won  a  great  victory,  and  General 
Logan  was  the  first  to  advise  Stan- 
ton and  to  ask  to  go  back  to  the  ITith 
Army  Corps,  which  he  did.  teeling 
happy  over  Thomas'  triumph  and 
retention  as  commander  of  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland.  Joining  tne  old 
1.5th  in  South  Carolina  and  march- 
ing thence  to  the  capital,  he  had  the 
satisfaction  of  being  restored  to  the 
command  of  the  Army  of  the  Ten- 
nessee and  riding  at  the  head  of  that 
glorious  army  in  the  Grand  Review, 
May  22nd.  1SG5.  which  was  perhaps 
the  proudest  hour  of  his  whole  life. 
General  Logan  expected  to  return 
to  the  practice  of  law  and  enter  into 
politics  no   more,   but    it   was  not   to 


be.  He  was  simply  forced  into  the 
political  arena  by  a  combination  of 
circumstances  that  made  it  impos- 
sible to  keep  out  without  appearing 
to  disregard  the  best  interests  of  his 
country. 

In  1SG6,  nothing  would  do  but  he 
must  accept  the  nomination  for  Con- 
gressman at  large  from  Illinois, 
which  was,  of  course,  the  beginning 
of  a  lon.g  and  brilliant  political  ca- 
reer. 

January  16,  186S,  the  National 
Encampment  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic  met  at  Philadelphia 
and  General  John  A.  Logan  was 
elected  Commander-in-Chief.  As 
was  his  wont  to  do,  he  threw  his 
whole  soul  into  the  work  and,  after 
a  conference  with  the  officers  then 
elected  and  the  council  of  adminis- 
tration, proceeded  to  encourage  the 
extending  of  the  order  and  increas- 
ing their  good  works.  He  estab- 
lished National  Headquarters  in 
Washington,  and  drew  around  him 
an  able  staff.  May  5th,  1868,  he  is- 
sued General  Order  No.  11.  estab- 
lishing Memorial  Day.  For  tender- 
ness of  expression  of  sentiment  for 
the  memory  of  the  loyal  dead,  it 
stands  without  parallel: 
"General  Orders  No.  11. 
Headquarters.  Army  of  the  Republic, 
Washington,  D.   C.  May  5,   1868. 

"I.  The  30th  day  of  May,  1868,  is 
designated  for  the  purpose  of  strew- 
ing with  flowers  and  otherwise 
decorating  the  graves  of  comrades 
who  died  in  defense  of  their  country 
during  the  late  rebellion,  and  whose 
bodies  now  lie  in  almost  every  city, 
village  and  hamlet  churchyard  in  the 
land.  In  this  observance  no  form 
of  ceremony  is  prescribed,  but  posts 
and  comrades  will  in  their  own  way 
arrange  such  fitting  services  and  tes- 
timonials of  respect  as  circum- 
stances   may   permit. 

"We  are  organized,  comrades,  as 
our  regulations  tell  us,  for  the  pur- 
pose among  other  things  of  preserv- 
ing and  strengthening  those  kind 
and  fraternal  feelings  which  have 
bound  together  the  soiaiers.  sailors 
and  marines  who  united  to  suppress 
the  late  rebellion.  What  can  aid 
more  to  assure  this  result  than 
cherishing  tenderly  the  memory  of 
our  heroic  dead,  who  made  their 
breasts  a  barricade  between  our 
country  and  its  foes?  Their  sol- 
dier lives  were  the  reveille  of  free- 
r'om  to  a  race  in  chains,  and  their 
death  the  tattoo  of  rebellious  tyran- 
ny in  arms.  We  should  guard  their 
graves  with  sacred  vigilance.  All 
that  the  consecrated  wealth  and 
taste  of  the  nation  can  add  to  their 
adornment  and  security  is  but  a  fit- 
ting tribute  to  the  memory  of  her 
slain  defenders.  Let  no  wanton  foot 
tread  rudely  on  such  hallowed 
grounds.  Let  pleasant  paths  invite 
the  coming  and  going  of  reverent 
visitors  and  fond  mourners.     Let  no 


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vandalism  of  avarice  or  neglect,  no 
ravages  ot  time,  testify  to  the  pres- 
ent or  to  the  coming  generations  that 
we  have  forgotten  as  a  people  the 
cost  of  a  free  and  undivided  repub- 
lic. 

"If  other  eyes  grow  dull  anri  other 
hands  slacli  and  other  hearts  cold  ir 
the  solemn  trust,  ours  shall  keep  it 
well  as  long  as  the  light  and  warmth 
of   life    remains   to   us. 

"Let  us,  then,  at  the  time  a'lpn.r.t- 
ed  gather  aroun  1  their  sacred  re- 
mains and  garland  the  passionless 
mounds  above  them  with  the  choic- 
est flowers  of  Springtime;  let  us 
raise  above  them  the  dear  old  flag 
they  saved  from  dishonor;  let  us  in 
this  solemn  presence  renew  our 
pledges  to  aid  and  assist  those 
whom  they  have  left  among  us  a 
sacred  charge  upon  a  nation's  grati- 
tude— the  soldier's  and  sailor's 
widow   and   orphan. 

"II.  It  is  the  purpose  of  the  Com- 
mander-in-Chief to  inaugurate  this 
observance  with  the  hope  that  it  will 
be  kept  up  from  year  to  year,  while 
a  survivor  of  the  war  remains  to 
honor  the  memory  of  his  departed 
comrades. 

"He  earnestly  desires  the  pu'ilic 
press  to  call  attention  to  tais  order, 
and  lend  its  friendly  aid  in  biiiie''ng 
it  to  the  notice  of  comrades  in  all 
parts  of  the  country  in  time  for 
simultaneous    compliance    therewith. 

"III.  Department  commanders  will 
use  every  effort  to  make  this  order 
effective." 

"By  command  of  John  A.  Logan, 
Commander-in-Chief, 

"N.    P.    Chipman,    Adj.    Gen." 

If  no  after  act  of  General  Logan 
had  rendered  his  name  immortal, 
this  order  would   have  made   it  so. 

General  Logan's  administration 
following  so  soon  after  the  close  of 
the  war,  the  demands  upon  him  wero 
very  great.  He  was  constantly  ap- 
pealed to  for  assistance  from  every 
direction.  The  excitement  upon  the 
reconstruction  of  the  states  placed 
him,  as  the  head  of  a  groat  quasi- 
military  organization,  in  a  position 
of  grave  responsibility,  fn  the  con- 
troversy that  arose  bo'ween  P.-i?si- 
dent  Johnson  and  Secret/ivy  Stamen, 
when  President  Joh.ison  undertook 
to  eject  Secretary  Stanton  from  the 
War  Office  as  many  thought  for  sin- 
ister motives,  President  Johnson  be- 
ing Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
Army  much  apprehension  was  felt  by 
patriotic  men  all  over  the  nation 
who  were  determined  that  the  Presi- 
dent should  not  betray  the  party  and 
the  country.  Hundreds  of  tele- 
grams came  pouring  in  upon  General 
Logan,  urging  him  as  the  head  of 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  to 
stand  by  Stanton,  assuring  him  they 
were  ready  on  the  minute  to  respond 
to  any  call  that  he  might  make  upon 
them.  General  Logan,  nothing  loath 
to     obey    their     commands,     sought 


Secretary  Stanton  and  assured  him 
of  the  support  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic.  He  had  called  to- 
gether the  Department  of  the  Grand 
Army  in  the  District  of  Columbia, 
General  N.  P.  Chipman  at  their 
head  and  also  National  Adjutant 
General.  A  perfect  understanding 
was  had  as  to  what  they  should  be 
expected  to  do  should  the  President 
attempt  by  military  power  to  forcibly 
eject  Secretary  Stanton  from  the 
War  Office.  To  a  man  they  were 
ready  for  any  service  to  uphold  the 
Government  and  save  the  country 
from  treachery.  Every  night  until 
the  excitement  had  passed,  Grand 
Army  men  patrolled  the  streets  of 
Washington  and  guarded  the  War 
Office,  while  the  dauntless  Stanton 
remained  in  his  office  night  and  day, 
his  meals  being  served  to  him  and 
couches  placed  in  his  office  for  him- 
self and  General  Logan.  During  the 
day  General  Logan  attended  upon 
the  sessions  of  the  House,  of  which 
he  was  a  member.  In  the  evening 
he  met  his  staff  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  in  our  rooms  in  Wil- 
lard's  Hotel,  and  later  went  to  the 
War  Department  to  spend  the  night 
with  Secretary  Stanton.  President 
Johnson  by  some  means  learned  of 
the  situation.  He  sent  for  General 
Logan  to  discuss  the  matter.  Gen- 
eral Logan  assured  him  if  he  should 
undertake  to  take  forcible  posses- 
sion of  the  War  Department  and 
control  of  the  Army  for  the  further- 
ance and  perpetuation  of  his  power, 
that  the  volunteer  soldiery  were 
ready  to  return  to  the  service  of 
their  country,  and  to  protect  the 
loyal  people  of  the  unreconstructel 
states. 

Beyond  question,  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  under  its  intrepid 
leader  did  much  to  avert  the  then 
threatened  anarchy. 

General  Logan  was  thrice  elected 
Commander-in-Chief  and  no  service 
of  his  whole  life  was  more  satisfac- 
tory than  that  given  in  behalf  of  his 
comrades  in  arms. 

In  1871,  he  was  elected  to  the 
Ignited  States  Senate,  a  position  to 
which  he  aspired  and  enjoyed  for 
many  years,  barring  the  prodigious 
labor  he  performed  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties  in  Congress  during  the 
trying  days  of  reconstruction  and 
the  many  and  arduous  campaigns  in 
which  he  participated.  But  in  the 
ever  changing  situations  of  political 
affairs  there  were  times  when  he  suf- 
fered much  anxiety  and  vexation  of 
soul  for  the  welfare  of  the  nation 
and  its  continued  peace  and  pros- 
perity, being  so  constituted  that  he 
felt  deeply  every  cause  and  measure 
which  he  espoused  or  danger  that 
threatened  our  institutions.  Ag- 
gressive, intense  and  honest  in  his 
convictions  and  actions,  he  provol-ed 
opposition,  and  in  consequence  never 
had  a  triumph   that   he  did   not   win 


after  desperate  effort.  His  abhor- 
rence of  duplicity,  deception  and 
lying  was  his  strongest  characteris- 
tic, his  word  being  ever  his  bond 
which  he  kept  sacredly,  no  matter 
at   what   cost  to   himself. 

Having  been  a  victim  of  treach- 
ery through  the  machinations  of 
bribe-givers  and  bribe-takers,  he 
was  humiliated  by  defeat  for  re- 
election to  the  Senate  in  1877.  At 
first  he  was  incredulous  that  such 
means  should  have  been  resorted  to 
in  politics  to  accomplish  that  pur- 
pose, but  receiving  positive  proof  of 
the  use  of  money  to  compass  his  de- 
feat, he  was  perfectly  infuriated  ana 
took  pleasure  in  denouncing  these 
methods,  predicting  that  such  a 
policy,  if  not  driven  out  of  Ameri- 
can politics,  would  destroy  the  gov- 
ernment more  effectually  than  an 
armed   force. 

His  loyalty  to  his  friends  was 
only  exceeded  by  that  to  his  coun- 
try. His  courage  was  only  second 
to  his  tenderness  of  heart  and 
warmth  of  affection.  The  greatest 
personal  grief  of  his  life  was  the 
change  of  General  Grant,  whom  he 
loved  devotedly,  in  the  Fitz-John 
Porter  case,  not  on  account  of  preju- 
dice toward  Porter  personally,  but 
because  he  really  believed  Porter 
guilty  of  treason  to  Pope,  and  con- 
sequently responsible  for  the  sacri- 
fice of  human  life  which  followed 
Porter's  disobedience   of  orders. 

He  feared  defeat  of  the  Republi- 
can nominee  for  the  Presidency  in 
ISSl,  and  hoped  to  save  the  elec- 
tion, or  he  would  not  have  acceptei 
the  nomination  for  the  Vice  Presi- 
dency— a  position  to  which  he  never 
aspired.  And  no  man  ever  more 
honestly  immolated  himself  for  his 
party,  or  accepted  the  result  more 
gracefully,  than  he  did,  notwith- 
standing the  personal  sacrifice  he 
had  made  and  the  effort  he  had  put 
forth  to  prevent  the  mistakes  of 
others  from  bringing  disaster  to  the 
Republican  party. 

Immediately  following  that  fruit- 
less personal  sacrifice  he  was  forced 
to  enter  upon  another  long  and  pros- 
trating contest  for  his  return  to  the 
Senate,  or  give  place  to  some  one 
from  the  opposition.  Personally  he 
was  weary  of  such  struggles,  and  of 
contact  with  men  whose  support  he 
must  solicit,  but  whom  he  considered 
unworthy  of  a  place  in  a  legislative 
body,  and  for  whom  he  had  the 
greatest  aversion.  But  feeling  that 
the  welfare  and  supremacy  of  his 
party  were  at  stake,  he  remained  at 
his  post  and  shortened  his  days  by 
the  harrassing  campaign  which  last- 
ed from  January  1st  to  May  2nTh. 
1SS5.  His  success  brought  him  in- 
finite pleasure,  and  made  him  happy 
in  tbe  thought  that  he  was  immov- 
ably intrenched  in  the  hearts  of  his 
countrymen,  which  softened  all  ani- 
mosities and  feelings  of  distrust  and 


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rivalry,  making  the  last,  eighteen 
mouths  of  his  life  the  brightest  and 
freest  from  vexatious  cares  of  his 
whole  career. 

The  welcome  e.xtended  to  him  b.v 
his  colleagues  in  the  Senate,  ir- 
respective of  parly,  touched  him 
deeply,  and  made  him  forget  the 
friction  of  partisan  debate  and  re- 
joice in  the  evidence  of  friendship 
for   him. 

His  devotion  to  his  family  amount- 
ed to  idolatry;  he  could  see  no  fault 
in  any  of  them.  His  generosity  was 
such  that  he  kept  himself  poor  by 
giving  too  freely  from  his  meagre 
resources.  No  ex-Union  soldier  was 
ever  turne..  away  discouraged  or 
without  a  little  contribution  toward 
the  alleviation  of  his  sufferings.  He 
spent  much  of  his  life  endeavoring 
to  help  the  unfortunate  secure  em- 
ployment. 

General  Logan  died  December  2  0, 
1886,  of  inflammatory  rheumatism, 
leaving  to  his  loved  ones  the  price- 
less legacy  of  an  illustrious  and  un- 
tarnished   name. 


MARY    LOGAN    TUCKER. 


Daughter  of  General  and  Mrs.   John 
A.    Logan. 

Sketch   by  Mrs.  John  A.   Logan. 

Mary  Logan  Tucker  was  born 
June  20,  185S,  in  Benton,  Franklin 
County,  Illinois.  Her  father  was 
then  a  member  of  the  Illinois  State 
Legislature,  and  was  elected  to 
Congress  the  following  year.  Mrs. 
Logan  did  not  accompany  him  to 
Washington  the  first  Session  of  Con- 
gress in  which  he  served,  but  subse- 
quently she  came  to  Washington, 
bringing  her  baby  with  her.  Mary 
Logan  Tucker  .  was  always  a  very 
precocious  child,  and  the  idol  of 
her  father  from  the  time  of  her 
birth.  During  the  interregnum  of 
the  sessions  of  Congress,  they  re- 
sided at  Carbondale,  Illinois,  to 
which  place  they  had  removed,  and 
were  living  there  when  the  War 
broke  out.  General  Logan's  regiment 
rendezvousing  at  Cairo,  Illinois.  She 
was  accustomed  to  spend  much  of 
her  time  at  his  headquarters,  fre- 
quently appearing  beside  Captain 
McCook  on  Dress  Parade.  She  was 
the  idol  of  the  regiment,  and  al- 
though very  young,  being  only  two 
and  a  half  years  old,  she  seemed  to 
appreciate  the  excitement  of  the 
times.  During  her  father's  absence 
from  home  they  remained  in  Carbon- 
dale,  until  the  close  of  the  Rebellion, 
removing  to  Chicago  in  1871.  She 
entered  a  private  school  in  that  city 
for  a  short  time,  but  as  the  family 
tad  to  go  to  Washington,  General 
Logan  having  been  elected  to  the 
Senate,  they  found  it  was  better  to 
have  her  near  them,  so  as  soon  as 
they  could  arrange  it,  she  was  placed 
in  a  convent  on  10th  Street,  near  G, 


where  she  remained  until  she  was 
old  enough  to  go  to  Georgetown,  re- 
maining there  until  her  graduation 
in  1S7G.  She  always  had  a  great 
devotion  for  the  Convent  and  the 
Sisters,  expressing  her  loyalty  at  all 
times    and    on    all    occasions.  No 

Protestant  girl  ever  entertained  a 
higher  regard  for  the  Sisters  or  was 
more  loyal  to  her  Alma  Mater  than 
was  Mary  Logan  Tucker  to  the  Con- 
vent of  Visitation  at  Georgetown, 
D.   C. 

After  her  graduation,  she  visited 
Philadelphia  during  the  Centennial 
Celebration,  going  from  there  to 
Chicago  where  the  family  then  lived. 
Her  girlhood  was  very  brief,  as  she 
was  married  in  Chicago  on  the  2  7th 
of  November,  1877,  to  W.  F.  Tuck- 
er, of  Chicago,  having  been  much 
a  .mired   as   a   young   lady. 

She  has  always  been  a  devoted 
wife  and  mother,  going  with  her 
husband  to  a  small  place  in  the 
country,  sharing  the  discomfoi  ts 
and  inconveniences  of  the  primitive 
home  her  husband  made  for  her,  un- 
til it  seemed  wiser  to  him  to  change 
his  vocation  in  life. 

After  his  appointment  as  Major  in 
the  Pay  Corps  of  the  U.  S.  Army. 
Mrs.  Tucker  accompanied  him  to 
New  Mexico,  and  no  one  has  left  a 
better  reputation  behind  her  than 
Mrs.  Tucker  left  at  Santa  Pe,  New 
Mexico,  where  her  husband  was  sta- 
tioned for  four  years.  Her  hospital- 
ity, charity  and  helpfulness  to  her 
husband  and  the  people  about  her 
endeared  her  very  much  to  them. 
Among  her  most  intimate  friends 
were  General  and  Mrs.  Lawton,  Gen- 
eral McKenzie  and  his  venerable 
mother  and  lovely  sister.  Miss  Mc- 
Kenzie, General  Chambers  McKib- 
ben.  all  of  whom  have  ever  been 
her    devoted    friends. 

From  New  Mexico  they  came  to 
Washington  where  the  Major  was  on 
duty  for  eight  years,  during  which 
time  she  lost  her  father.  She  was 
overwhelmed  by  this  unspeakable 
sorrow,  but  tried  at  all  times  to  for- 
get her  own  grief  by  her  devotion  to 
her    mother. 

She  has  always  been  foremost  in 
acts  of  charity,  and  many  unfortu- 
nate creatures  are  ready  to  rise  up 
and  call  her  Blessed  for  her  generos- 
ity to  them. 

At  the  end  of  eight  years  her  hus- 
band was  obliged  to  have  a  change 
of  station  according  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  army  and  they  were 
sent  to  St.  Paul.  Minnesota,  where 
Mrs.  Tucker  again  made  for  hersel* 
many  friends,  and  at  the  expiration 
of  his  term  there,  received  every  evi- 
dence of  the  regard  of  the  people 
with  whom  she  had  been  .issociated. 

Major  Tucker,  having  been  or- 
dered to  duty  at  Atlanta,  Georgia, 
in  connection  with  the  Spanish-Amer- 
ican War,  she  remained  in  Washing- 
ton until  his  duties  were  completed. 


after  which  he  -va;  ordered  lo  Olii- 
cago,  and  she  went  inimouialeiy  to 
that  city  and  established  a  home 
where  they  Uvea  most  happily,  sur 
rounded  by  a  multnude  of  friends. 

During  Mrs.  Tucker's  sojourn  in 
Chicago,  her  brother.  Major  John  A. 
Logan,  Jr.,  was  killed  in  the  Philip- 
pines, another  unutterable  sorrow 
that  required  all  of  her  philosophy 
and  moral  courage  to  bear  unniur- 
niuringly.  Major  Tucker  being  or- 
dered to  Alaska  soon  aftei\\ard,  she 
again  removed  to  Washington,  so 
that  she  might  be  with  her  vvidowed 
and  bereaved  mother.  Her  nobility 
of  character  and  devotion  to  those 
near  and  dear  to  her  is  not  surpassed 
by  anyone. 

Major  Tucker  was  stationed  in 
Washington  at  the  time  of  General 
Logan's  death,  where  he  remained 
eight  years;  during  this  time  Mrs. 
Tucker  conceived  the  idea  of  organ- 
izing the  Georgetown  Convent  Al- 
umni, and  together  with  Mrs.  Arthur 
Dunn,  laid  the  whole  plan,  secured 
the  charter  and  bore  all  of  the  ex- 
pense of  its  issuance,  the  question  of 
sectarianism  never  entering  her 
mind  or  that  of  her  own  personal 
aggrandizement  having  no  part 
whatever  in  her  desire  to  see  this 
organization  prosper.  She  did  it  in 
the  interest  of  progress  and  the  wel- 
fare of  her  Alma  Mater,  and  is  en- 
titled to  the  credit  of  the  conception 
of  the  idea  to  preserve  the  names 
and  fames  of  all  who  have  graduated 
from    the    Georgetown    Convent. 

Mrs.  Tucker  is  well  informed  on 
all  questions,  having  a  brilliant  mind 
and  retentive  memory.  She  has 
travelled  abroad,  and  over  almost 
every  spot  of  her  own  country.  Her 
contributions  to  magazines  and 
newspapers  have  given  her  a  name 
as  a  writer.  Since  1901  her  hus- 
band has  been  stationed  at  Fort 
Vancouver,  Portland,  Oregon,  but 
having  been  informed  he  would  be 
ordered  to  Manila  at  any  time  a 
vacancy  at  that  post  might  occur, 
Mrs.  Tucker  resided  with  her  moth- 
er at  Calumet  Place,  Washington, 
spending  her  summers  at  Holly  Hills 
Farm,  eight  miles  from  the  city. 
The  long  expected  orders  of  Lt.  Col. 
W.  F.  Tucker  for  duty  as  Chief  Pay- 
master of  the  U.  S.  Army  in  the 
Philippines  came  last  July,  conse- 
quently he  sailed  October  1st,  1904, 
Mrs.  Tucker  and  their  youngest  son 
accompanying  him,  their  oldest  son, 
Logan,  having  established  himself 
in   Alaska. 

Mrs.  Tucker  was  much  grieved  to 
leave  her  mother  absolutely  alone, 
but  realized  her  first  duty  was  to 
her  husband.  Her  mother  would  not 
listen  to  her  neglecting  her  duty  on 
her  account.  It  was  impossible  be- 
cause of  her  literary  engagements 
for  Mrs.  Logan  to  go  with  her  daugh- 
ter, therefore,  mother  and  daughter 
had   to   separate,     each   courageouslv 


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submitting    to  the    decrees    of    fate 
unmurmuiingly. 

Mrs.  Tucker's  two  sons  are  a 
credit  to  her  love  and  tenderness, 
and  the  unspeakable  devotion  of  a 
mother  who  has  never  neglected  the 
duties  of  her  home  for  any  frivolous 
society  fads.  She  made  many  en- 
gagements for  literary  work  before 
her  departure.  Her  life  is  earnest 
as  she  is  ambitious  to  have  filled  her 
place  with  credit  to  the  immortal 
name   of    Logan. 


MAJOR   JOHN   A.    LOGAN,    JR. 


Son    of     General    and    Mrs.     John    A. 
Logan. 


Sketch  by  Mrs.  Logan. 
As  the  clouds  of  the  Civil  War 
were  passing  away  and  peace  was 
dawning  after  four  long  years  of 
bloody  carnage,  General  Logan  was 
ordered  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  to 
muster  the  troops  of  the  Western 
Army  out  of  the  service.  While  he 
was  engaged  in  carrying  out  this 
order,  there  came  into  our  home  at 
Carbondale,  Jackson  County,  Hli- 
nois,  on  Monday  morning,  July  2  4, 
1865,  a  blessed  baby  boy,  whom  we 
afterwards  christened  Manning 
Alexander  Logan.  He  weighed  at 
birth  13  1-2  pounds;  his  raven  black 
hair  as  fine  as  the  ravelings  of  the 
finest  silk,  his  brilliant  black  eyes 
and  rich  olive  complexion  and  per- 
fect form,  showed  from  the  hour  of 
his  birth  that  he  was  a  perfect  proto- 
type of  his  father,  General  John  A. 
Logan,  whose  happiness  knew  no 
bounds  when  he  received  the  tele- 
gram announcing  the  birth  of  our 
son.  We  had  lost  our  first  born 
when  he  was  a  baby  of  13  months. 
The  advent  of  this  beautiful  boy  at 
the  close  of  years  of  sorrow  and  an- 
xiety filled  our  hearts  with  joy.  He 
grew  more  strikingly  like  his  father 
every  year  of  his  life.  He  had  in- 
herited all  the  intensity  and  en- 
thusiasm of  his  father's  nature,  as 
well  as  the  spirit  of  the  times  in 
which  he  was  born.  Patriotic  and 
courageous  in  every  fibre  of  his  be- 
ing he  could  not  brook  any  indiffer- 
ence to  our  flag  or  lack  of  patriotism 
in  others.  He  was  always  the  cham- 
pion of  the  weak  and  unfortunate, 
and  as  a  school  boy  and  later  as  a 
cadet  at  West  Point,  had  plenty  of 
opportunity  to  display  these  char- 
acteristics in  fighting  his  own  and 
his  fellows'  battles.  He  was  a  born 
leader,  and  almost  from  his  baby- 
hood would  not  play  unless  he  was 
the  Captain  and  leader  in  every- 
thing. His  intense  hatred  of  a  mean 
thing  was  even  more  than  his  fath- 
er's, and  no  matter  how  mischievous 
he  was  or  what  happened,  he  always 
told  the  truth  and  nothing  but  the 
truth,  regardless  of  how  unenviable 
a  light  it  placed  him  in.  He  dis- 
pised  a  sneak  or  a  traitor.     He  was 


never  cruel  or  unjust  and  so  gener- 
ous that  he  could  not  look  upon 
poverty  and  suffering  without  giving 
whatever  he  had  to  relieve  the  un- 
fortunate. 

As  a  boy  be  divided  everything  he 
had  with  his  companions,  always 
saving  something  for  the  boys  that 
were  less  fortunate  than  himself 
who  were  his  play-fellows.  He  was 
impulsive  and  quick  to  resent  an  in- 
jury or  take  the  part  of  anyone  who 
was  being  imposed  upon.  His  devo- 
tion to  father  and  mother  amounted 
to  idolatry  Though  still  in  his  mi- 
nority, it  was  his  strong  arm  that 
lifted  and  attended  his  father  in  his 
last  illness  and  dying  hour,  and  sup- 
ported his  mother  in  all  the  over- 
whelming sorrow  that  followed  his 
father's  death.  Wishing  to  mani- 
fest his  desire  to  do  all  in  his  power 
for  his  stricken  mother,  he  had  a 
deed  made  out  of  his  interest  in  his 
father's  estate  in  favor  of  his  moth- 
er, and  insisted  that  she  should  ac- 
cept it,  and  was  not  aware  until  af- 
ter his  marriage  that  she  had  de- 
stroyed the  deed.  There  was  no 
sacrifice  he  would  not  have  made 
for  those  he  loved.  In  his  father's 
political  campaigns,  after  he  was  in 
his  teens,  he  was  of  invaluable  ser- 
vice to  his  father,  executing  any  or- 
der given  him  with  fidelity  and  dis- 
cretion. 

He  was  always  popular  as  a  boy 
and  man,  and  felt  infinite  pride  in 
the  assurances  he  had  of  the  friend- 
ship of  the  foremost  men  and  women 
of  the  nation.  He  treasured  espe- 
cially the  evidences  of  the  high  es- 
teem in  which  he  was  held  by  Mrs. 
U.  S.  Grant  and  Mrs.  James  G. 
Blaine,  who  always  treated  him  with 
the  greatest  consideration  from  the 
time  he  wore  knickerbockers  to  his 
last  call  upon  them  before  leaving 
fur  the  Philippines.  He  was  innately 
considerate  and  polite  to  elderly 
people.  No  complaint  of  rudeness 
was   ever   lodged    against   him. 

He  was  always  full  of  fun — the 
life  of  our  home  and  that  of  his 
own — ready  to  frolic  with  the  chil- 
dren, assist  in  the  preparations  of 
entertainments  tor  their  friends  and 
those  of  older  growth,  in  the  fes- 
tivities of  Christmas,  Fourth  of  July 
and  other  holidays;  he  was  always 
untiring  in  his  efforts  to  make  every- 
body happy.  Like  all  other  such 
impulsive  and  enthusiastic  natures, 
he  had  his  faults  and  escapades,  as 
other  boys,  but  there  was  never 
anything  dishonorable  or  disgrace- 
ful in  anything  in  which  he  partici- 
pated. Everything  of  a  military 
character  delighted  him  immensely. 
Before  he  was  ten  years  old,  he  had 
his  military  company  and  all  the 
paraphernalia  of  a  soldier  and  an 
officer,  and  would  insist  upon  his 
father  drilling  him  in  the  manual  of 
arms,  so  that  he  could  in  turn  drill 
his   company.        He   would     go   to   a 


military  school  as  soon  as  he  was  old 
enough.  At  the  Morgan  Park  Mili- 
tary Academy  he  had  his  flrs't  ex- 
perience away  from  home,  and  took 
his  first  lessons  in  the  profession  of 
a  soldier,  to  which  he  was  born.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  First  Regi- 
ment, Illinois  State  Guards,  almost 
before  he  was  eligible.  Later,  on 
entering  West  Point  through  the 
kindness  of  President  Arthur,  he 
took  his  father's  full  name,  think- 
ing then  that  he  would  remain  in  the 
service  for  life.  He  subsequently  re- 
signed, but  still  clung  to  the  name 
he  loved  so  well,  notwithstanding 
he  realized  the  responsibility  of 
bearing  it  worthily. 

He  was  married  very  young  be- 
cause he  met  his  ideal  early,  and 
no  man  ever  lived  who  was  more  de- 
voted to  wife  and  children  than  was 
Major  John  A.  Logan.  Nothing  but 
his  ardent  love  of  country  and  laud- 
able ambition  to  add  lustre  to  the 
name  he  bore  for  their  sakes,  could 
have  induced  him  to  be  separated 
from  them.  He  tried  desperately  to 
content  himself  with  the  routine  of 
a  business  career,  but  was  unable  to 
do  so  with  the  inborn  disposition  to 
distinguish  himself  in  some  other 
line.  He  was  inordinately  fond  of 
reading  and  investigation,  especially 
in  military  history  and  science.  He 
was  thoroughly  well  informed  on  the 
armies  of  the  world,  their  organiza- 
tion, equipment,  maneuvres,  mobili- 
zation, support  and  efficiency.  He 
was  fascinated  with  the  Army  of 
Russia  and  the  study  of  the  manners 
and  customs  of  the  subjects  of  the 
Czar.  His  book  "Joyful  Russia" 
was  universally  well  received,  and 
reflected  great  credit  upon  him, 
proving  that  he  could  have  succeed- 
ed in  a  literary  career. 

His  fondness  for  horses  was  an 
inheritance  from  his  grand  father, 
as  well  as  his  father,  and  I  am  not 
sure  but  that  his  great  great  grand 
father  transmitted  this  fondness  for 
horses.  He  studied  this  noble  ani- 
mal carefully  and  knew  all  about 
horses,  their  use  and  the  care  of 
them,  and  what  constituted  abuse  of 
them. 

His  love  of  home  and  family  was 
one  of  his  chief  characteristics,  and 
though  we  boarded  much  of  the 
time  during  his  boyhood,  he  was  al- 
ways happy  in  our  modest  quarters 
and  quite  content  with  the  amuse- 
ments we  were  able  to  give  him. 

When  the  Spanish-American  War 
broke  out,  he  was  possessed  with  an 
ungovernable  desire  to  take  a  regi- 
ment into  the  field  from  Illinois, 
but  was  prevented  from  doing  so  by 
the  unjust  discrimination  of  Gov- 
ernor Tanner.  Failing  in  his  de- 
sire, he  accepted  a  Majority  in  the 
Adjutant  General's  Corps,  and  had 
the  good  fortune  to  be  assigned  to 
the  staff  of  General  John  C.  Bates, 
thereby  securing  service  in  the  field. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOrs. 


General  Bates'  reports  attest  the  ef- 
ficiency and  promptness  with  which 
he  discharged  his  duties.  His  res- 
cue of  Creelman,  the  correspondent, 
in  itself  entitled  him  to  special  hon- 
ors. The  fact  of  the  unpopularity 
of  the  correspondent  should  not 
have  prevented  Major  Logan  from 
receiving  the  promotion  for  which 
he  was  strongly  recommended.  He 
was  present  at  the  midnight  "Coun- 
cil of  War"  before  El  Caney,  about 
which  so  much  has  been  said  and 
written,  and  though  a  subordinate 
on  the  staff  of  gallant  General 
Bates,  he  was  intensely  interested 
and  strongly  in  favor  of  a  vigorous 
and  prompt  attack  upon  the  enemy. 
The  endorsement  of  General  Law- 
ton  and  other  officers  on  file  in  the 
War  Department  attest  to  his  cool- 
ness and  soldierly  conduct,  on  that 
the  most  important  battle  of  the 
Cuban  campaign.  He  was  on  duty 
constantly  during  the  investment  of 
Santiago,  and  had  the  pleasure  ot 
being  with  General  Bates  when  the 
flag  was  hoisted  over  the  Palace  of 
the  captured  city.  Immediately  af- 
ter he  was  stricken  with  malignant 
malarial  fever,  from  which  he  did 
not  recover  for  months,  though  he 
returned  to  duty  in  November,  join- 
ing General  Bates  at  Macon,  Ga., 
being  made  Provost  Martial  of  that 
Department   during   its   occupancy 

He  found  the  responsibilities  of 
his  position  very  great  on  account  of 
the  antagonism  between  the  citizens 
and  the  colored  troops  who  seemed 
disposed  to  riotous  acts  and  insub- 
ordination. While  in  camp  in  the 
South,  Major  Logan,  accompanied 
only  by  a  sargent  and  a  small  guard, 
disarmed  a  whole  colored  regiment 
and  put  them  under  guard  of  an- 
other well-disciplined  regiment,  and 
by  his  coolness  quieted  the  rioters 
and  protected  the  citizens  from  their 
lawlessness.  He  won  the  confidence 
of  his  superior  officers  and  the  citi- 
zens who  were  lavish  in  their  ex- 
pressions of  personal  regard  and  ad- 
miration of  Major  Logan  as  a  sol- 
dier and   a  gentleman. 

The  26th  of  December,  1S9S,  Gen- 
eral Bates  and  his  command  em- 
barked for  Cienfuegos,  General 
Bates  having  been  put  in  command 
ot  the  provnice  of  Cienfuegos.  Soon 
after  their  arrival,  General  Bates 
sent  Major  Logan  with  sixteen 
mounted  men  to  make  a  tour  of 
these  provinces,  and  make  a  report 
to  him  of  their  condition.  Major 
Logan  was  very  successful  in  this 
expedition,  taking  practically  the 
census  of  both  provinces,  but  in 
doing  this  his  tender  heart  was 
stirred  to  its  depths,  as  naught  but 
starvation,  beggary,  suffering,  dis- 
ease and  devastation  greeted  them 
everywhere.  Major  Logan  dared 
not  take  the  rations  from  his  men 
and  distribute  among  the  men, 
•women  and  children  whom  he  found 


actually  starving,  but  he  gave  away 
every  cent  of  money  and  all  the  ex- 
tra clothing  he  had,  and  arrived  in 
Sagua  La  Grande  without  anything 
himself.  His  report  caused  relief  to 
be  sent  to  the  most  destitute.  He 
could  not  tell  of  what  he  saw  with- 
out shedding  tears:  familiarity  with 
suffering  served  only  to  quicken  his 
sympathies.  He  could  not  become 
indifferent  or  calloused  to  human 
misery.  He  completely  captured  the 
hearts  of  the  Cubans  of  Santa  Clara 
who  desired  to  have  him  made  their 
Governor  and  petitioned  the  Presi- 
dent  for  his  appointment. 

On  account  of  his  mother's  seri- 
ous illness  he  was  called  home  to 
Washington,  where  he  was  again  at- 
tacked by  malarial  fever.  Before  he 
had  recovered  the  tragic  death  of  his 
wife's  uncle  and  family,  by  the 
burning  of  their  home  and  them- 
selves, so  afflicted  Mrs.  Logan  that 
he  would  not  leave  her,  and  peace 
having  been  considered  assured  in 
Cuba  and  the  Philippines,  he  re- 
signed and  again  tried  to  take  up  the 
duties  of  a  business  career.  Hos- 
tilities beginning  again  in  the  Phil- 
ippines, and  Mrs.  Logan's  health 
having  improved,  he  could  not  re- 
sist the  temptation  to  return  to  the 
service,  believing,  as  he  did,  that  it 
was  for  the  betterment  of  a  race  of 
human  beings  that  they  should  be 
brought  under  the  protecting  care  of 
our  government.  He  felt  that  he 
would  be  helping  to  civilize  and 
Christianize  a  people  who  would 
otherwise  continue  to  be  little  better 
than  savages.  He  also  believed  it 
was  necessary  to  hold  the  Philip- 
pines as  a  necessity  of  the  United 
States  in  the  fulfillment  of  the  des- 
tiny of  this  great  republic.  All  of 
his  letters  from  the  date  of  his  join- 
ing his  regiment  until  his  landing  at 
San  Fabian  are  full  of  noble  aspira- 
tions and  mature  thought  quite  be- 
yond his  age.  Appreciating  the  haz- 
zard  of  the  expedition  upon  which 
he  had  set  out,  he  was  eager  to  lead 
the  van.  He  was  happy  in  his  com- 
manders. Colonel  Hare  and  General 
Wheaton,  his  Brigade  Commander, 
General  Lloyd  Wheaton.  having 
served  during  the  Civil  War  on  his 
father's  staff.  He  knew  he  had  a 
devoted  friend  in  him.  Proud  of  his 
name  and  of  the  men  of  his  bat- 
talion, he  led  the  column  on  that 
fatal  day,  sanguine  of  success,  he 
little  dreamed  of  the  fate  which 
awaited  him,  or  that  the  enemy  was 
above  instead  of  in  front  of  him. 
He  had  made  the  reconnaissance  and 
knew  they  were  entrenched  many 
hundreds  strong,  and  he  was  confi- 
dent that  the  indomitable  Thirty- 
Third  would  dislodge  him.  Alas! 
he  fell  at  the  hands  of  a  sharp 
shooter,  hidden  in  the  boughs  of  a 
cocoanut  tree  ere  they  had  fulfilled 
his  expectations,  his  young  life  go- 
ing out  while  his  regiment  were  car- 


rying  the  intrenchments   and   pursu- 
ing the  flying  insurgents. 


SKETCH    OF    CAPTAIN    JOHN    MA- 
RION  CUNNINGHAM. 


The  name  of  Cunningham  comes 
from  the  union  ot  two  Saxon  words, 
"Koenig,"  meaning  King,  ani 
"Hanie,"  meaning  home,  or  literal- 
ly. Kings  Home,  easily  assimilated 
into  "Conyngham,"  "Cuninghame," 
"Cunnyngham,"  "Cunyinghame,"  or 
"Cunningham,"  as  it  is  variously 
written.  The  following  is  copied 
trom  Burke's  Peerage,  bearing  upon 
early    history: 

"The  family  is  of  very  great  an- 
tiquity in  North  Britain.  According 
to  Camden,  the  Cunnynghames  came 
originally  into  Scotland  from  Eng- 
land with  King  Malcolm  Cammore, 
and  he  is  probably  correct,  tor  we 
find  them  settled  in  the  Shire  of 
Ayr,  very  soon  after  the  time  of  that 
Monarch  (reigned  in  Scotland  from 
1057  to  1093)  Frederick  Van  Bur- 
ren,  a  learned  Norweigen  who  wrote 
an  account  of  several  Scottish  fam- 
ilies says,  that  one  Malcolm  ,son 
of  Freskin  assisted  Malcolm,  Prince 
ot  Scotland,  (afterwards  King  Mal- 
colm Canmore),  to  make  his  escape 
from  the  tyranny  of  Macbeth,  who 
had  murdered  his  father,  Duncan, 
and  being  hotly  pursued,  he  took 
shelter  in  a  barn  where  Freskin 
concealed  the  Prince  by  forking 
straw  over  him.  The  Prince,  thus 
aided,  eventually  made  his  escape 
into  England,  still  attended  by  his 
faithful  Malcolm  Freskin.  Prince 
Malcolm  was  no  sooner  in  posses- 
sion of  his  throne  after  his  victory 
over  Macbeth  than  he  rewarded  his 
preserver  with  the  thane  iom  of 
Cunnynghame,  trom  which  his  pos- 
terity assumed  their  surname,  and 
took  a  sheaf-fork  for  their  arms 
with  'Over  fork  Over'  tor  their 
motto. 

"One  of  the  name  was  in  1488 
created  Earl  of  Glencairn,  the  last 
male  ot  which  line  died  in  179  0,  and 
was  the  subject  ot  one  ot  Bobby 
Burns'  beautiful  poems.  Another 
was  made  Earl  ot  Carrick  by  David, 
King  of  Scotland  and  married  Ele- 
nor.  niece  of  Robert  Bruce.  Some  of 
the  name  fought  with  William  of 
Orange  at  the  Battle  of  Boyne  in 
IG.Sbl.  The  Marquis  ot  Conyngham, 
who  has  now  his  seat  on  the  river 
Boyne  in  Ireland,  is  supposed  to  be 
one  of  the  same  family." 

From  the  foregoing  it  will  be 
seen  that  the  family  of  Cunningham 
is  one  of  the  oldest  and  that  they 
have  been  associated  with  historic 
events  since  1059.  John  M.  Cun- 
ningham, the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  the  son  of  Robert  Cunningham, 
son  of  Joseph  Cunningham  and  Mary 
Simerson       Cunningham.  He    was 

born      in    IS  12    in      Lincoln    County, 
Tennessee.        He       was       christened 


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"Francis  Marion"  for  his  father's 
friend.  General  Francis  Marion,  but 
was  induced  by  liis  uncle,  John  Cun- 
ningham, to  drop  Francis  and  take 
that  of  John.  He  had  one  brother 
and    two    sisters. 

Soon  after  the  organization  of 
the  territory  of  Illinois  his  father 
decided  to  emigrate  to  the  new  ter- 
ritory and  removed  with  his  family 
and  his  slaves  to  Southern  Illinois, 
near  what  was  subsequently  known 
as  Marion,  Williamson  County.  Rob- 
ert, the  eldest  son,  decided  to  re- 
main in  Tennessee  but  later  re- 
moved to  Austin,  Texas,  and  though 
he  lived  many  years  he  was  never 
again  seen  by  any  member  of  the 
family,  as  traveling  in  those  days 
was  a  difficult  undertaking.  After 
settling  on  a  farm  his  father  liber- 
ated his  slaves  but  they  would  not 
leave  their  kinJ-hearted  master,  but 
continued  to  remain  with  the  family 
as  long  as  they  lived. 

His  eldest  sister,  Caroline,  said  to 
have  been  very  beautiful,  married 
in  Tennessee  to  a  man  by  the  name 
of  Kelly,  who  also  removed  to  Illi- 
nois and  settled  on  the  Ohio  River 
near  the  present  town  of  Metropolis. 

Clementine  married  a  Mr.  \Vm. 
Henry,  a  very  wealthy  Virginian, 
who  emigrated  to  the  new  terri- 
tory. They  owned  large  tracts  of 
land  near  her  father's  farm,  but 
went   to   California   in    1848. 

J.  M.  Cunningham  was  first  en- 
gaged by  General  John  Davis,  as  a 
clerk  and  general  assistant  in  the 
extensive  dry  goo  is  and  other  mer- 
cantile enterprizes.  General  Davis 
was  a  capitalist  and  most  prominent 
man  in  that  section  in  early  days. 
He  secured  goods  and  other  mer- 
chandise in  St.  Louis  and  transport- 
ed them  across  the  country.  While 
in  General  Davis'  employ  he  made 
the  acquaintance  of  General  George 
P.  Davis,  one  of  the  wealthiest  men 
in  the  West  and  who  carried  on 
many  business  enterprizes.  In 
183  4,  by  consent  of  General  Davis, 
who  was  the  devoted  frienl  of  young 
Cunningham,  he  entered  the  service 
of  General  Davis,  who  placed  him 
in  charge  of  a  general  merchandise 
store  at  Petersburg,  Missouri.  He 
soon  became  well  known  and  uni- 
versally popular.  Here  he  met  Miss 
Elizabeth  Hicks  Fountain,  the 
daughter  of  Joseph  Fountain,  a 
wealthy  descendant  of  the  French 
Hugenots.  whose  real  name  was 
"De  La  Fountaine,"  but  who  Ameri- 
canized the  name  by  dropping  the 
"De  La"  and  the  final  e. 

Miss  Fountain  was  one  of  the 
loveliest  women  of  her  time,  and 
proved  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
in  native  ability  and  nobility  of 
character.  No  man  was  ever  more 
fortunate  than  John  M.  Cunningham 
in  the  choice  of  his  wife.  To  her 
he  owed  everything  which  brought 
happiness   or   success.        After    their 


marriage  in  18'o7  they  remained  but 
a  few  years  in  Petersburg,  as  Mr. 
Cunningham's  father,  Robert  Cun- 
ningham (who  fought  under  Jack- 
son at  the  battle  of  Xew  Orleans) 
was  in  failing  health  and  wanted  his 
son  to  come  to  him  in  Illinois.  In 
1839  he  closed  out  his  business  in 
Missouri,  liberated  his  slaves  and 
taking  two  horses  and  a  double 
carriage  and  his  wife  and  one  child, 
he  drove  from  Boone  County,  Mis- 
souri, to  Marion,  Illinois,  expecting 
their  household  goods  to  follow  by 
being  haulel  to  Hannibal,  Missouri, 
and  from  there  shipped  by  boat  to 
St.  Louis  and  from  there  hauled  to 
Marion.  Part  of  them  came  all 
right,  but  some  of  them  were  stored 
in  an  old  freight  depot  in  Hannibal 
for  more  than  twenty  years,  and 
were,  of  course,  destroyed  by  moth, 
dampness   and   rust. 

After  his  return  to  Illinois  he 
took  a  farm  and  had  his  mother  and 
father  and  the  two  old  faithful  ser- 
vants, "Uncle  Joe  and  Aunt  Han- 
nah," who  came  and  lived  with 
them  as  long  as  they  lived. 

He  was  elected  Sheriff  of  the 
County  and  Member  of  the  Legisla- 
ture soon  after  the  admission  of 
the  State.  His  popularity  with  the 
people  tintil  the  day  of  his  death 
was  second  to  no  man  in  the  State. 
Among  the  earliest  recollections  of 
his  eldest  children  was  that  of  see- 
ing him  borne  on  the  shoulders  of 
his  admiring  friends  to  the  Court 
House  steps  in  their  will  enthusi- 
asm to  have  him  speak  to  them,  af- 
ter he  volunteered  to  go  to  the  Mexi- 
can War.  He  was  elected  Captain 
of  Company  B,  First  Illinois  Infan- 
try Volunteers,  and  went  across  the 
plains  under  Colonel  Donaldson. 
Their  Regiment  was  assigned  to 
General  Sterling  Price's  Brigade. 
When  quite  young  he  was  a  volun- 
teer in  the  Black  Hawk  War.  He 
was  every  inch  a  soldier,  ever  ready 
for  adventure  and  hazzardous  duty. 
He  was  made  United  States  Marshall 
for  the  Southern  District  of  Illinois 
an1  put  down  the  Massac  County 
Regulators  who  had  built  a  Fort  on 
the  Ohio  River,  and  prepared  to 
defy  the  officers  of  the  law.  but  af- 
ter Captain  Cunningham  arrested  a 
number  of  them  and  sent  them  to 
the  penitentiary  they  decided  to 
stop    their    depredations. 

In  1849  he  joined  the  expedition 
which  went  across  the  plains  to 
California  at  the  time  of  the  great 
excitement  over  the  discovery  of 
gold  on  the  Pacific  slope.  They 
were  late  starting  ani  suffered  se- 
verely before  they  reached  Sacre- 
mento.  In  fact,  all  of  the  animals 
of  the  overland  train  and  many  of 
•  he   party  died. 

Captain  Cunningham  was  left 
about  seventy-five  miles  from  Sacra- 
mento all  alone  beside  the  road,  as 
he  was  too  ill  to  go  any  farther.     He 


insisted  that  the  few  survivors 
should  go  on  and  send  back  for  him, 
as  he  knew  George  P.  Doris,  of  St. 
Louis,  had  wagon  trains  that  were 
going  back  and  forth  from  St. 
Louis,  to  Sacramento,  but  unfortu- 
nately they  had  not  met  them  en 
route.  He  was  sure  Mr.  Doris  would 
send  a  pony  express  and  bring  him 
in  if  the  others  would  go  in  and  re- 
port his  whereabouts.  They  were 
lucky  enough  to  get  through  safely. 
Mr.  Doris  sent  immediately  for  him 
and  he  was  saved  from  starvation 
and  death  on  a  desolate  road  miles 
from  any  human  habittion. 

He  often  used  to  tell  thrilling 
stories  of  his  experience  and  narrow 
escapes  from  being  massacred  by 
Indians,  or  dying  from  alkali  water 
and  want  of  fool,  and  of  the  lonely 
graves  they  passed  as  they  walked 
from  Alton,  Illinois,  to  Sacramento, 
of  poor  men  who  belonged  to  the 
many  parties  that  had  preceded 
them  in  their  quest  of  the  gold 
fields.  He    was    in    the    California 

mines  from  the  summer  of  '49 
(having  been  nearly  four  months  of 
that  year  en  route)  until  the  sum- 
mer of  1852.  His  fortunes  went  up 
and  down  the  scale  as  did  those  of 
many  other  men.  He  came  home 
when  the  presidential  election  was 
at  its  height.  After  the  election  of 
Franklin  Pierce,  through  the  influ- 
ence of  Hon.  William  Allen,  Captain 
J.  M.  Cunningham  was  appointed 
Register  of  the  Land  Office  at  Shaw- 
neetown,    Illinois. 

During  his  term  and  through  his 
urgent  advocacy  of  the  matter  the 
"Bit  Act"  was  passed;  that  is,  Con- 
gress passed  a  law  allowing  actual 
settlers  to  enter  the  lanis  em- 
braced in  Shewneetown  District, 
which  covered  an  extensive  area,  to 
be  entered  at  12  1-2  cents  per  acre. 
This  gave  such  an  impetus  to  settlers 
that  all  of  the  available  lands  were 
quickly  taken  up  and  the  Land  Of- 
fice   at    Shawneetown    discontinued. 

Captain  Cunningham  again  re- 
turned to  Marion,  Williamson 
County,  built  a  home  expecting  to 
spend  the  remainder  of  his  life 
there.  He  was  elected  clerk  of  the 
County  Court,  which  position  he 
held    for   many    years. 

The  breaking  out  of  the  Rebel- 
lion brought  him  great  sorrow  and 
anxiety  and  may  be  said  to  have 
been  the  beginning  of  the  troubles 
which  attended  him  as  long  as  he 
lived. 

In  1S66  an  epidemic  of  cholera 
visited  Marion  and  Mrs.  Cunning- 
ham was  among  the  victims.  With 
her  usual  courage  she  had  respond- 
ed to  the  call  of  the  first  who  were 
attacked  and  died  in  a  few  hours. 
Returning  home  after  working  over 
those  who  died,  she  disclaimed  any 
fear  of  the  disease,  but  admitted  she 
was  very  tired.  The  people  fled 
the     town    until    it    was    almost    de- 


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populated.  She  talked  the  malter 
over  with  her  husband  until  nine 
o'clock  that  night.  She  insisted  she 
would  not  leave  home  or  undertake 
to  run  away  from  the  disease  and 
perhaps  expose  others  If  any  of  her 
family  should  have  it,  she  thought 
it  best  to  stay  at  home.  At  mid- 
night she  awakened  with  the  first 
throes  of  real  Asiatic  cholera  and  at 
six  a.  m.  she  was  dead. 

With  her  death  went  out  all  the 
hopes  and  ambition  of  Capt.  Cun- 
ningham. She  was  his  stay  and 
help  mate  through  all  the  vicissi- 
tudes of  life,  noble  in  every  sense 
of  the  word,  highly  intelligent  and 
with  the  finest  intuitions  she  was 
equal  to  any  emergency.  She  had 
the  courage  of  a  lioness  and  devot- 
ed her  whole  life  to  her  husband 
and  her  children.  Her  loss  to  them 
was  never  repaired  and  effected  se- 
riously their   careers. 

In  1869  Captain  Cunningham 
was  appointed  collector  of  Internal 
Revenue  at  Provo,  Utah  Territory, 
where  he  was  obliged  to  report. 
Having  been  married  to  his  second 
wife.  Miss  Mary  Hopper,  of  Marion, 
Illinois,  he  removed  to  Provo,  where 
he  resided  until  his  death,  March, 
1873. 

Captain  John  M.  Cunningham 
was  one  of  God's  noble  men.  He 
was  the  soul  of  honor;  absolutely 
unselfish,  generous  to  a  fault,  and 
so  tender-hearted  that  his  sympa- 
thies went  out  to  every  human  crea- 
ture who  needed  sympathy.  He 
knew  no  such  thing  as  fear,  his  mor- 
al and  physical  courage  prompting 
him  always  to  deeds  of  daring  and 
adventure.  He  could  never  say  no 
to  any  request  made  of  him  and 
consequently  distributed  the  for- 
tunes he  made  with  an  unwise  and 
liberal  hand.  He  worshipped  his 
wife  and  family  of  thirteen  children, 
seven  of  whom  grew  to  the  estate 
of  man  and  womanhood.  Mary, 
Hannah,  Hybert,  Clementine,  Gy- 
rene, Samuel,  John  and  Evaline,  all 
cherishing  his  memory  as  a  most 
indulgent  father. 

The  community  in  which  he  spent 
the  most  of  his  life  loved  and  re- 
spected him  for  his  many  deeds  of 
kindness    and    generosity. 


WILLIAM  W'ATSON,  Colored. 


This  ancient  negro  and  ex-slave, 
who  is  at  present  the  oldest  living 
man  found  in  the  county,  lives  in 
a  log  cabin,  which  is  the  very  first 
house  built  within  the  present  lim- 
its of  the   city  of  Marion. 

He  does  not  seem  to  be  quite  clear 
upon  the  question  of  his  age  but 
thinks  he  was  born  on  the  16th  day 
of  May,  1820,  near  Salina,  in  Jack- 
son County,  Tennessee.  His  neigh- 
bors, however,  say  that  he  was  84 
years  old  as  long  a.go  as  they  can  re- 
member,  and   are   quite   sure   he     is 


getting  very  near  the  century  mark. 
We  think  this  is  quite  likely,  as  he 
states  that  his  mother  died  in 
Guthrie,  Ky.,  about  12  years  ago,  at 
the  age  of  110.  She  was  able  to 
walk  half  a  mile  or  more,  do  a  day's 
washing  and  return  home  again 
without  apparent  fatigue  within  a 
month  of  her  death.  She  had  no 
disease,  but  the  old  clock  just  run 
down   and   stopped   ticking. 

The  old  man  is  not  very  much 
wrinkled  nor  very  gray,  and  does 
not  show  age  as  a  white  person 
would.  He  has,  however,  passed 
beyond  work,  and  finds  it  extremely 
difficult  to  get  around  at  all.  His 
faithful  wife  earns  a  living  for 
both  by  washing,  with  the  help  of 
the  eggs  from  a  few  chickens  and 
a    little  garden. 

His  master  was  a  Massachusetts 
man  by  the  name  of  Samuel  Watson, 
who  was  a  man  of  wealth  and  dis- 
tinction in  his  adopted  state,  and 
owned  some  thirty  or  more  slaves 
before  the  Civil  War  freed  them. 
He  took  with  him  to  Tennessee  his 
New  England  ideas,  and  privately 
and  secretly  taught  his  brightest 
negroes    to    read    and    write.  He 

treated  his  slaves  like  younger 
brethern,  and  was  never  known  to 
whip  one.  When  he  thought  pun- 
ishment was  in  order  he  would  call 
the  offender  into  the  parlor  and  set 
him  in  an  easy  chair  with  a  book  or 
paper  in  his  hand,  of  which  the  poor 
darkey  could  not  read  a  word,  and 
keep  him  there  till  dinner  time.  He 
would  then  politely  invite  him  to 
the  dining  room,  and  seating  him  in 
the  place  of  honor,  would  take  the 
place  of  servant  and  proceed  to  wait 
upon  him  with  the  greatest  gravity 
and  politeness.  After  dinner,  he 
generally  set  him  about  his  work 
with  a  few  words  of  kind  admoni- 
tion and  advice.  This  recipe  never 
failed  on  a  refractory  servant, 
though  he  has  sometimes  kept  a 
particularly  hard  case  in  the  corner 
with  his  book  or  paper  all  day  Sun- 
day, but  he  never  failed  to  provide 
them  with   a  good  Sunday  dinner. 

One  poor  old  woman  quarrelled 
with  a  neighbor  and  quit  her  job,  re- 
fusing longer  to  work  with  her. 
Mr.  Watson  set  her  to  taking  water 
in  a  pail  from  a  little  stream  near 
by  and  carrying  it  a  few  rods,  pour- 
it  over  the  fence  into  the  same 
stream.  After  a  half  day's  useless 
toil  in  this  fashion,  the  old  lady  be- 
came reconciled  to  her  job  and 
went    back    cheerfully    to    work. 

Billy  took  his  master's  name,  af- 
ter the  prevailing  fashion,  and  sems 
to  have  been  a  very  skilfull  me- 
chanic and  valued  by  his  owner 
correspondingly  high.  Another 
slave  ow'ner  offered  his  master 
$2S0n  for  him.  but  was  refused. 
Watson  saying  he  wouldn't  accept 
$3000  for  him,  as  he  earned  him  not 
less   than    $800   a   year. 


Watson  was  in  all  sorts  of  busi- 
ness in  Tennessee.  He  owned  farms, 
cotton-mills,  saw-mills,  Houring-mills 
and  a  powder  factory;  kept  black- 
smith and  repair  shops  running, 
made  his  own  wagons  and  other 
tools,  and  in  general  run  an  exten- 
sive business  on  his  various  planta- 
tions. He  was  a  careful,  cautious, 
thrifty  man,  and,  like  the  typical 
New  Englander  he  was,  looked  after 
the  pence,  knowing  the  pounds 
would  look  after  themselves.  He 
would  never  allow  a  slave  to  work 
in  the  powder  factory.  He  said  they 
were    worth    too    much    money. 

His  home  was  about  25  miles 
from  Nashville,  on  the  head-waters 
of    the    Cumberland    River.  Billy 

was  brought  up  in  the  cotton  fac- 
tory until  about  2(1,  and  was  then 
put  to  house-carpentering  by  his 
master.  Showing  an  aptitude  at  me- 
chanics, he  worked  successively  at 
blacksmithing,  horse-shoeing,  wag- 
on-making and  repairing.  He  was 
the  handy-man  of  the  plantation  and 
could  do  anything  he  was  set  at. 
His  master  trusted  him  fully  and  he 
had  many  opportunities  to  take  leg 
bail  for  Canada.  At  one  time  he 
was  sent  by  Mr.  Watson  100  miles 
from  home  to  collect  a  bill,  and  on 
his  return  found  himself  in  posses- 
sion of  a  fine  horse  saddle  and  bri- 
dle his  master's  gold  watch  and 
$5000  in  greenbacks.  He  was  sorely 
tempted  this  time  to  turn  his  horse's 
head  towards  the  Ohio  river,  but 
love  for  his  master,  his  home  and 
his  honor  prevailed  and  he  finished 
his  journey  as  he  began  it — a  slave. 

Watson  was  a  staunch  Union  man 
and  did  all  that  lay  in  him  to  pre- 
vent his  state  from  seceeding.  Af- 
ter the  fall  of  Fort  Donaldson  he 
rode  his  horse  into  Nashville,  took 
the  oath  of  allegiance  before  Gen. 
Grant  and  returned  to  his  mills  and 
factories.  He  had  a  trusty  servant 
who  posed  as  a  rebel,  and  when  the 
rebs  were  about  he  was  the  owner  of 
everything,  but  when  the  other  side 
came  in  sight.  Watson  was  the  mas- 
ter. By  this  device  they  kept  their 
property  from  being  burned  or  de- 
str'oyed  by  either  side.  A  good  deal 
of  the  time  the  powder-mill  turned 
out  confederate  powder,  but  later  on 
was  run  mostly  to  send  bullets  after 
them. 

While  the  most  of  the  negroes 
ran  away  during  the  troublous  times 
of  the  war,  Watson  stuck  by  his 
master  till  Lincoln's  Proclamation 
freed  them  all.  He  then  joined  the 
5th  Iowa  Cavalry,  riding  one  of  his 
master's  best  horses,  and  remained 
with  it  until  he  was  discharged, 
August  9th,  1865,  at  Eastport.  Miss. 
He  never  served  in  the  ranks,  but 
was  always  in  the  employ  of  the 
government,  repairing  wagons,  etc. 
After  the  War  he  lived  and  worked 
in  Nashville  till  lS6fi,  then  to  John- 
sonville  in    1867,   then   to   Cincinnati 


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and  "scouting  around"  till  he  came 
to  Marion  in  1882.  Here  he  moved 
with  his  wife  into  the  log  cabin 
where  he  still  lives  and  which  he 
has  kept  continuously  until  the  pres- 
ent time,  and  for  which  they  pay 
$1.00   a   week   rent. 

He  married  his  first  wife  while 
both  were  owned  by  Watson,  and 
she  died  while  he  was  with  the 
army.  His  second  wife  he  married 
at  Wittenberg,  Mo.,  May  16th,  1870. 
Her  name  was  Charlott  Walker,  an 
ex-slave  in  Texas.  In  the  picture  of 
the  old  house  Mrs.  Watson  sits  by 
the   side   of   her   husband. 

Mrs.  Robinson,  who  is  a  widow 
living  in  the  other  half  of  the 
cabin,  was  glad  of  the  opportunity 
an  1  also  took  a  seat  near  Mr.  Wat- 
son, as  shown  in  the  picture.  Wat- 
son, it  is  said,  is  fond  of  his  cup, 
and  gets  it  whenever  he  can,  but, 
like  white  people  sometimes,  he  is 
occasionally  very  religious,  and  in 
the  picture  holds  an  open  testament 
on  his  knee,  which  lies  open  at 
these  words-:  John  X:  3  4-3  6;  "Is  it 
not  written  in  your  law,  I  said,  ye 
are  gods?  If  he  called  them  gods, 
unto  whom  the  word  of  God  came, 
and  the  scripture  cannot  be  broken: 
say  ye  of  him  whom  the  Father  hath 
sanctified  and  sent  into  the  world. 
Thou  blasphemist,  because  I  said,  I 
am  the  Son  of  God?  If  I  do  not  the 
works  of  my  Father,  believe  me  not, 
but  if  I  do,  though  ye  believe  not 
me,  believe  the  works,  that  ye  may 
know  and  believe,  that  the  Father  is 
in   me  and   I   in  Him." 


THE   TE.Ml'KK.WCK   t  AISK. 


A  history  of  political  parties  of 
Williamson  county  would  be  incom- 
plete without  a  reference  to  the  pro- 
hibition party,  the  oldest  of  all  the 
three  parties.  Although  its  first 
national  ticket  was  not  put  up  un- 
til 1869,  the  temperance  movement 
in  its  various  phases  which  preced- 
ed prohibition  began  as  far  back  as 
1845  when  a  traveling  temperance 
lecturer  waked  the  county  up  as  it 
had  never  been  walced  before. 
People  stopped  business  to  hear 
him.  This  strolling  temperance  lec- 
turer made  two  notable  converts  in 
the  persons  of  Uncle  Chess  McCoy 
and  .Tacob  Goodall.  who  have  re- 
mained steadfast  to  their  pledge  to 
this  day.  Goodall  celebrated  his 
conversion  by  taking  a  barrel  of 
whiskey  he  had,  knocking  the  head 
in  and  emptying  the  contents  into 
the  gutter.  A.  B.  C.  Campbell  of 
Bloomington,  Dan  K.  Shielis  and  a 
reformed  drunkard  named  Knowles 
of  Greenville  and  .Joseph  Benson  of 
Indiana  followed  as  temperance  lec- 
turers. Knowles  wound  up  by  get- 
ting $125  and  a  suit  of  clothes  and 
then  getting  gloriously  drunk.  Dur- 
ing all  this  time  temperance  was  the 
object  of  agitation.     There  were  the 


Sons  of  Temperance,  Sons  of  Malta, 
the  Blue  Ribbon,  high  license  and 
local  option  movements,  all  ending 
with  the  present  philosophical 
movement,  prohibition.  The  lead- 
ers and  followers  of  the  party  in 
Williamson  county  as  elsewhere  are 
men  of  high  character  who  are  un- 
dismayed by  defeat.  Frank  Brown 
cast  the  first  and  only  prohiljition 
vote  in  the  county  in  1869.  The 
party  now  counts  its  followers  by 
the   hundred. 

The  first  business  building  erect- 
ed in  Marion  was  a  log  shanty  built 
by  .John  Davis  and  run  by  him  as 
a  saloon.  Erwin  says  that  "he  was 
in  such  a  hurry  to  sell  whiskey 
that  he  bought  a  set  of  stable  logs 
from  A.  T.  Benson  which  he  put  up- 
oif  the  square  a  few  feet  north  of 
the  well."  He  also  states  that  he 
was  the  first  man  to  get  a  license  to 
sell  whiskey,  but  during  1839  two 
members  of  the  county  court  began 
to  sell   whiskey — Campbell   and   Hill. 


G.    W.    CHESLEY    McCOY. 


Reminiscences    of    a     returned    Cali- 
fornian. 


1  was  born  in  Jackson,  Tennessee, 
June  24,  1825,  but  my  parents  were 
both  natives  of  North  Carolina  and 
came  to  Tennessee  when  quite 
young.  My  father.  James  McCoy, 
was  born  Christmas  day,  1803,  and 
my  mother  was  born  May  28,  1807. 
1  came  with  my  parents  to  Franklin 
County  in  the  Spring  of  1837,  before 
Williamson  County  was  organized. 
We  settled  near  where  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  depot  now  stands. 
It  was  all  prairie  then  for  two  or 
'hree  miles  northwest  of  town,  and 
lather  broke  up  a  piece  that  Spring 
where  the  depot  now  stands  and 
planted  it  to  corn  on  the  sod  with 
an  ax.  It  was  known  as  Poor's 
Prairie. 

The  first  school  1  attended  was 
taught  by  Spiller,  an  uncle  of 
William  Spiller,  in  1837.  He  began 
in  August  and  kept  three  months.  I 
was  then  12  years  old,  and  all  the 
schooling  J  ever  had  wouldn't 
amount  to  more  than  12  months. 
About  that  time  Isaac  D.  Stockton 
taught  school  in  the  upper  story  of 
the  Court  House,  and  all  the  chil- 
dren in  the  county  attended  it.  It 
was  a  two-story  frame  building 
about  twenty  feet  square,  and  the 
first  Judge  I  remeiuber  was  Judge 
Scales,  who  tried  Jerry  Simpson  for 
killing  Andrew  J.  Benson,  in  the 
fall  of  1841.  Simpson  got  into  a 
quarrel  with  Andrew  Benson's  fath- 
er, and  as  the  old  man,  who  didn't 
want  to  quarrel,  was  going  away, 
Jerry  ran  after  him  with  a  knife  in 
his  hand,  swearing  he  would  kill 
him.  He  and  Andy  were  chums, 
and  Andy  ran  up  to  Jerry  and  put- 
ting  his  hand   on   his  shoulder   said. 


"O  Jerry,  you  wouldn't  kill  father, 
would  you?"  At  that  Jerry  struck 
backwards  with  his  knife  in  his 
hand,  probably  not  thinking  or  in- 
tending to  hurt  Andy,  but  only  to 
shake  him  off,  and  the  blade  entered 
the  bowels  of  Andy  and  killed  him. 
Willis  Allen,  the  father  of  Josh  Al- 
len, was  one  of  the  prosecution  and 
.lames  Shields  defended  him.  Jerry 
was  a  man  about  40.  He  broke  jail 
and  ran  away,  but  was  caught  a  year 
later  and  tried  but  acquitted  by  a 
packed   jury. 

We  had  no  mills  in  those  days. 
Milton  and  Dr.  Jonathan  Mulkey  and 
Capt.  James  Cunningham  bought 
the  machinery  for  a  saw  and  grist- 
mill, and  had  it  sent  by  o.\-teams 
to  where  the  Edwards  Mill  now 
stands.  But  no  one  could  be  found 
who  knew  enough  about  m:^chinery 
to  set  it  up,  and  it  lay  piled  up  on 
the  prairie  for  a  long  time.  After 
a  while,  about  '43  or  '44,  George 
Felts  and  John  Hooper  got  track  of 
the  situation  and  came  down  from 
Uellville  and  built  the  mill  and  the 
old  double  log  house  still  standing 
and  occupied  as  a  negro  cabin  by 
Wm.  Watson  and  family.  They 
lived  there  and  ran  the  mill  for  a 
good  many  years.  People  used  to 
come  for  2ii  miles  to  mill  and  wait 
their  turn,  maybe  two  or  three 
weks,  before  they  could  get  their 
Hour  or  meal.  This  was  the  first 
steam  mill  erected  in  the  County. 
the  logs  they  worked  up  were  most- 
ly   walnut    and    poplar. 

My  wife  was  Miss  Jane  Poague,  a 
native  of  Saline  County.  We  were 
married  in  the  old  Western  Ex- 
change building,  which  John  Pas- 
chal built  for  Allen  Bainbridge  in 
1842.  In  18  4.'i  I  began  to  work  at 
brick-making,  mason  work  and  plas- 
tering, and  followed  it  unit!  about 
1850. 

I  first  heard  of  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  California  in  1848.  A  man 
returned  from  there  in  1849  and 
brought  a  nugget  to  Marion  weigh- 
ing about  I14  ounces  which  he  sold 
to  a  merchant  here  for  about  $18  or 
$19.  People  began  at  once  to  make 
their  way  to  California,  mostly 
across  the  plains.  I  started  April 
26,  1850,  in  company  with  Dr.  Jas. 
P.  Thorn,  H.  L.  Hayes,  James  and 
Thomas  P.  Louden,  Henry  Purdy 
and  William  Lipsey.  We  took  three 
yoke  of  cattle  with  us  and  bought 
another  when  we  stopped  at  Inde- 
pendence. 

We  were  just  four  months  on  the 
road  and  landed  at  Coloma,  Eldo- 
rado County,  August  27,  1850.  Co- 
loma was  then  called  Hangtown 
from  a  hanging  which  took  place 
there  for  stealing.  James  M.  Mc- 
Coy, my  brother,  and  Willis  Aikman 
went  in  1854,  by  way  of  New  Or- 
leans  and   the   isthmus. 

Gold  was  first  discovered  in 
what      was    known      afterwards      as 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON    COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


Placerville,  about  five  miles  from 
Coloma,  the  county  seat.  The  whole 
teirilory  where  the  city  now  stands 
and  tar  beyond  was  all  rich  placer 
diggings,  anJ  every  foot  of  it  has 
been  washed,  and  tens  if  not  hun- 
dreds of  thousands  of  dollars  of  gold 
have  been  taken  out  of  it.  The  first 
find  occurred  this  way.  Old  General 
.John  Sutter,  who  had  a  big  ranch 
on  the  South  Fork,  about  45  or  51) 
miles  up  the  river  from  Sacramento, 
built  a  saw-mill  up  where  the  gold 
was  found  anJ  had  his  men  dig  a 
race  to  carry  the  water  to  the  mill. 
After  the  water  had  run  for  a  time 
it  was  seen  that  the  ditch  was  not 
deep  enough  and  they  shut  the 
water  off  to  dig  it  deeper. 

James  W.  Marshall  ,a  mill-wright 
from  New  Jersey,  had  charge  of  the 
job,  but  knew  nothing  of  the  nature 
of  the  nuggets  and  shining  yellow 
stuff  with  which  the  bottom  and 
sides  of  the  ditch  were  covered,  but 
the  Mexicans  who  were  at  work  for 
him  recognized  the  precious  metal 
at  a  glance  and  by  their  shouts  of 
"Ora!"  "Ora!"  soon  had  the  men 
filling  their  pockets  with  the  nug- 
gets which  strewed  the  channel  as 
thick   as   gravel-stones. 

Mr.  Marshall  jumped  on  the  back 
of  a  mule  and  took  his  coat  pockets 
full  down  to  General  Sutter  for  ex- 
amination. It  is  needless  to  say 
that  the  mill  was  abandoned  and 
the  country  soon  swarmed  with 
gold  diggers.  Two  years  later,  when 
I  went  there,  they  were  as  thick  as 
ants  in  an  ant-hill,  and  everybody 
was  so  rich  they  hardly  knew  what 
to  do  with  their  gold.  At  first  it 
was  a  common  thing  to  take  out 
$2  01)0  or  $3000  to  the  pan,  and  men 
would  throw  up  their  diggings  in 
disgust  and  seek  better  ground  until 
they  got  about  that.  One  miner,  Joe 
Beaman,  of  Nevada  City,  threw  up 
his  claim  after  going  down  10  feet 
or  so,  and  two  others  took  it,  and 
after  throwing  out  a  few  more 
shovels  of  dirt  struck  it  so  rich  that 
they  cleaned  up  not  less  than  $25,- 
000  in  two  feet  of  dirt.  William  A. 
Hutchinson,,  a  friend  of  mine,  with 
a  company  of  12  or  14  men,  came 
down  from  Oregon  and  went  into  a 
canon,  afterwards  called  Oregon 
Canon  from  their  party,  and  it  is 
incredible  the  amount  of  gold  they 
took  out  of  that  canon.  There  was 
no  lumber  and  all  used  pans,  but 
four     men.  who     got  them  a    rocker 


and  went  into  partnersliii).  They 
went  ia  the  diggings  in  the  Spring, 
and  when  it  grew  cold  in  the  fall 
they  threw  up  their  claim  as  ricli 
as  they  found  it,  but  they  loaded  a 
donkey  with  all  the  gold  he  coui'U 
carry  and  every  one  of  them  had  all 
they  could  stagger  under.  Two  and 
three  thousand  dollars  a  aay  was  a 
very  common  result  of  the  work  of 
three  men  with  pans.  One  of  Hut- 
chinson's partners  was  digging  away 
in  his  hole  one  day  when  he  cried 
out,  "Hutch,  the  derned  hole  has 
petered  out."  "Hutch"  went  into 
the  hole  with  him  to  crack  his  little 
joke  and  gathering  up  a  single  pan 
of  the  dirt  they  put  it  aside  in  a 
handkerchief,  and  when  they 
weighed  it  they  had  62yi  ounces  or 
$1125.  That  canon  was  about  ten 
or  twelve  miles  long,  and  starting  up 
in  the  mountains  ran  southwest  into 
the  middle  fork  of  the  American 
river.  Probably  ten  million  dollars 
of  gold  has  been  taken  out  of  that 
canon. 

There  were  a  good  many  disap- 
pointments and  mistakes,  and  some 
surprises  among  the  miners,  though, 
and  one  of  the  greatest  of  the  mis- 
takes was  the  most  common.  Gold 
was  so  plentiful  the  miners  thought 
it  was  inexhaustable,  and  didn't 
prize  it  nor  take  care  of  what  they 
got.  I  was  one  of  the  biggest  of  all 
the  big  fools.  I  went  into  the  mines 
in  1850  and  staid  there  till  1S9S, 
and  I  suppose  I  have  dug  half  a 
ton  of  gold,  but  I  haven't  a  dollar. 
I  had  two  brothers  with  me,  and  we 
once  took  up  a  very  promising 
claim,  I  thought,  but  after  holding  it 
a  while  my  eldest  brother  got  a 
chance  to  sell  for  $600,  and  after 
he  had  teased  us  till  we  gave  in,  it 
was  turned  over  and  we  got  the 
$600.  But  in  two  weeks  the  buyers 
had  taken  out  a  cool  $100,000  and 
more.  That  claim  "petered"  for  us, 
and  no  mistake. 

A  very  common  way  of  setting  the 
boundaries  of  a  claim  at  that  time 
in  those  diggings  was  for  a  miner 
with  his  pick  to  strike  a  circle  at 
arm's  length,  and  $20,000.  $30,000 
or  $40,000  would  be  cleaned  up 
down    to   bed   rock. 

I  left  that  locality  after  a  while 
and  went  up  into  Nevada  and  Yuba 
Counties,  on  the  Yuba  river,  where 
we  constructed  a  wing  dam  and 
cleaned  up  $4,000  or  $5,000  a  day. 
We  mined  as  far  down  as  Marysville 


and  took  uul  fro  m$.")i).UOO  to  $1(I0.- 
000  to  a  flume.  I  believe  that  coun- 
try is  yet  rich  in  gold,  but  this  old 
man    will    never    go    after   it. 

California  has  had  as  picturesque 
and  eventful  a  history  as  any  spot 
on  earth.  She  produced  twice  as 
much  gold  ($50,000,000)  in  1850 
as  the  entire  territory  comprised  in 
the  present  United  States  had  yield- 
ed from  Columbus'  time  down  to 
Marshall's  discovery  in  1848.  She 
produced  more  gold  in  1853  ($65,- 
000,000)  than  any  other  spot  on 
the  globe  of  equal  area  ever  has 
turned  out  in  twelve  months,  except 
the  Rand  district  in  South  Africa, 
just  before  the  Boer  war.  Over 
$1,500,000,000  of  the  yellow  metal 
has  been  picked  up  from  the  Golden 
State's  placers  or  dug  from  its 
mines  since  1848,  and  the  end  is  not 
yet  in  sight. 

1  was  in  California  five  years  be- 
fore my  wife  came  to  me.  She  was 
a  relative  of  the  noted  Dr.  Benja- 
min Franklin,  being  his  niece.  We 
had  five  children,  three  of  whom  are 
now  dead.  I  have  one  son  in  El 
Paso,  California,  and  one  daughter 
in  Alton.  My  youngest  son,  George 
W.  McCoy,  went  hunting  in  Alaska 
and  never  returned.  My  wife  died 
in    1860. 

On  the  24th  day  of  June,  1904, 
this  genial  religne  of  the  past  was 
7  9  years  old.  A  native  of  Jackson 
County,  Tennessee,  a  son  of  native 
North  Carolinians,  raised  to  12  years 
of  age  among  the  mountains,  for 
thirteen  years  a  resident  of  William- 
son County,  from  1837  to  1850,  then 
a  miner  in  California  for  48  .-ears, 
the  old  man  has  preserved  his  vigor, 
his  honesty  and  his  simplicity  al- 
most unimpaired  to  the  present 
time.  The  snap-shot  we  secured  of 
the  old  man  shows  him  in  his  fa- 
vorite corner,  at  the  entrance  of 
Amzi  White's  residence,  with  his 
favorite  paper,  the  San  Francisco 
Call,  on  his  lap.  Though  he  con- 
sented with  his  tongue  his  heart  re- 
fused to  go  to  the  photographer's  for 
a  good  picture.  i  iiis  would  have 
invovled  a  general  combing,  trim- 
ming and  brushing  up,  of  which  a 
mountaineer  and  Californian  miner 
was  never  guilty.  So  I  gave  up  the 
job  and  contented  myself  with  a 
snap-shot  at  him  in  his  everyday 
outfit,  in  which  alone  his  many 
friends    would    recognize    him. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS.  1 

Carterville,  Herrin,  Creal  Springs,  Johnson  City 

and   Other  Points. 


PUBLIC    OFFICIALS  OF  THE  CITY  OF  CARTERVILLE. 
Reading  t'loui  left  to  right.     Top  row — James  G.  Winning,  Aid.;   B.    P.  Bandy,    Police    Magistrate;     L.  E. 
Robertson,  J.   P.;   William  McEwan,  Treas. ;   Joe  Stalcup,  Aid.     Second  Row — W.  H.  Zin^merman,  Aid.;   Judge 
J.  L.  Gallimore,  Atty.;  E.  B.  Watson,  Mayor;   James  Ballow,  Clerk;   Price  Watson, 
.Murphy,  Aid.;   Charles  Craig,  J.  P. 


Aid. 


Third     Row — John 


THE  City  of  Carterville  is  located 
near  the  Western  boundary  of 
■Williamson  County,  Illinois,  in  Car- 
terville precinct.  The  original  plat 
of  the  town  on  file  in  the  Recorder's 
office  at  Marion  is  accompanied  by 
the  following  memorandum: 

"I  hereby  certify  that  I  have  sur- 
veyed the  town  of  Carterville,  sit- 
uated in  the  Southeast  one-fourth  of 


the  Southeast  quarter  of  Section  No. 
3.  Township  Xo.  9  South,  of  Range 
No.  1  East  in  the  County  of  William- 
son and  State  of  Illinois,  according 
to  the  above  plat,  this  17th  day  of 
February.  1S72.  H.  L,  Beasley.  Sur- 
veyor." 

Filed    F'ebruary   21,    1ST2. 

On  the  iDth  day  of  the  following 
May,  Cavett  &  Picketts  addition  was 


surveyed,  west  half  of  southwest 
half  and  filed  June  26,   1S72. 

A  petition  was  drawn  up  for  a 
Village  Charter  for  the  following  ter- 
ritory; 

Northeast  quarter  of  Section  10; 
west  half  of  northwest  quarter  of 
Section  11;  west  half  of  southwest 
quarter  of  Section  2;  southeast  quar- 
ter of  Section  3;  south  half  of  north- 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


SIZBMORE'S  CONCERT  BAND,  CARTERVII.LE. 
Names  of  members,  counting  from  left  to  right:  First  Row — Matt  \V.  Watson,  James  Taylor,  Lacy  Pay- 
ton,  Wm.  McEwen,  Thos.  Parrott.  Second  Row — James  Hutton,  John  B.  Rowett,  William  Peebles,  Richard 
Hadneld,  Alex.  McRae,  Chester  Taylor.  Third  Row- -Hiram  Rice,  Charles  Dunn,  John  King,  Frank  Sizemore, 
leader:  Fred  Bevard,  Klah  Hodges,  Wm.  Swaar.  Rob.  Parrott  and  Joe  Hadfleld  were  not  present  when  the 
picture  was  taken.     All  are  rpembersof  the  Musicians  Union. 


east  quarter  of  Section  3;  southwest 
quarter  of  northwest  quarter  of  Sec- 
tion 2:  all  in  towns  7  and  9,  range 
1   east. 

To  this  petition  there  were  thirty- 
six  signatures.  A  population  of  3  00 
was  sworn  to  by  J.  A.  Bundy,  George 
M.  McNeil,  before  L.  D.  Crain,  J.  P., 
at  Crain  City,  and  the  petition  ap- 
proved April  10,  1S72.  The  election 
was  held  January  22,  ISSl,  at  Crain 
City.  Thirty-eight  votes  were  cast, 
twenty-nine  for  and  nine  against. 
The  commissioners  of  election  were 
F.  M.  Grimes,  T.  C.  Crain.  B.  F.  Nor- 
ton, William  Curtin  and  B.  P.  Spill- 
er.  The  certificate  is  sworn  to  June 
25th,  18S1,  before  Brice  Holland 
and  John  H.  Reynolds,  J.  P's..  and 
the  papers  filed  by  W.  H.  Eubank, 
Attorney,    June    29th,    1881. 

The  following  are  the  first  officers 
chosen  for  the  new  Village.  Presi- 
dent, Jonathan  Bandy:  Clerk,  J.  D. 
Herrin:  Treasurer,  Laban  Carter: 
Trustees,  William  Tranbarger,  V.  S. 
Harris,  E.  C.  Jones,  James  Blair, 
George  McNeil. 

In  189  2  the  Village  was  incor- 
porated as  a  city  with  the  following 
public  officers:  G.  C.  Philips,  Mayor: 
W.  W.  Sizemore,  Clerk:  J.  B.  Sam- 
uels, Treasurer:  C.  A.  Bander,  At- 
torney: Aldermen,  W.  W.  Snyder,  P. 


J.  Teter,  John  Bevard,  J.  C.  Riley, 
Dave  McFadden,  T.   J.   Moak. 

The  present  official  roll  is  as  fol- 
lows: E.  B.  Watson,  Mayor:  James 
Ballow,  Clerk:  William  McEwan, 
Treasurer:  J.  L.  Gallimore,  City  At- 
torney: S.  P.  W'atson,  Street  Com- 
missioner: B.  P.  Bandy,  Police  Mag- 
istrate: Geo.  Walker,  City  Marshal: 
Charles  Craig  and  L.  E.  Robertson, 
Justices  of  the  Peace.  Council, 
Henry  Zimmerman,  James  W^inning, 
John  Murphy,  James  McEwan,  Jos. 
Stalcup,  Samuel  Russell. 

The  City  has  a  good  fire  brigade 
under  R.  H.  H.  Hampton,  Captain, 
and  is  well  provided  with  fire-fight- 
ing apparatus. 

It  is  furnished  with  electric 
lights  by  the  Hope  Electric  Light 
Co.,  and  is  one  of  the  best  lighted 
cities  in  Southern  Illinois.  It  has  a 
fine  grove,  which  was  purchased  for 
a  park  in  1894,  where  all  out-of- 
doors  public  gatherings  are  held. 

The  city  has  been  visited  by  very 
destructive  fires  four  times.  The 
first  in  March,  1885:  then  in  April. 
1897:  August,  1898,  and  August. 
1900.  But  it  has  been  practically 
rebuilt  with  brick  in  a  more  sub- 
stantial manner,  much  to  the  satis- 
faction of  the  inhabitants. 

The   followine    is   pretty   nearly    a 


complete  list  of  the  industries  of  the 
city  at  the  present  time:  Five  Gen- 
eral stores,  one  Hardware  store,  two 
Clothing  stores,  six  Restaurants. 
two  Confectionaries,  one  Electric 
I^ight  Plant,  three  Lumber  Yards, 
five  Barber  Shops,  two  Blacksmith 
Shops,  one  Photograph  Gallery,  two 
Drug  Stores,  two  Shoe  Shops,  two 
Livery  Stables,  two  Feed  Stables, 
two  Tailor  Shops,  one  Bakery,  one 
Jewelry  Store,  one  Harness  Shop, 
two  Millinery  Stores,  two  Butcher 
Shops,  five  Grocery  Stores,  two  Ho- 
tels, one  Furniture  and  Exchange 
Store,  one  Laundry,  two  Furniture 
and  Undertaking  Rooms,  one  Cigar 
Factory,  four  Boarding  Houses,  two 
Opera  Houses,  one  Weekly  Newspa- 
per, nine  Saloons,  one  Cornet  Band, 
two  Dentists,  three  Lawyers,  one 
Surveying  and  Engineering  Co.,  four 
Insurance  Agents,  two  Printing  Offi- 
ces, four  Resident  Ministers,  four 
Physicians. 


Fii'St  Things. 

The  first  store  in  Carterville  was 
conducted  by  John  Herrin,  Sr.,  on 
the  spot  where  the  Thompson  House 
now  stands.  The  first  religious  ser- 
vice was  conducted  by  Elder  Henry 
Boles   in    1871.      The   first   Boarding 


SOUNENIR   OF   WILLIAMSOX   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


elated  by   the   Illinois  Railway  Com- 
pany  for  all   freighting. 


THE   HOPE  ELECTRIC    LIGHT   PLANT. 


House  was  run  by  James  Thompson, 
where  William  Lockie  now  lives. 
The  first  Postmaster  was  Aschal 
Connor.  The  first  grist-mill  and 
saw-mill  was  built  and  operated  by 
James  M.  Washburn  in  1S82.  The 
Carterville  Milling  Company  was  es- 
tablished in  1854.  also  the  Taylor 
Bros,  planing  mill  the  same  year. 
The  Illinois  Central  Railway  Com- 
pany built  its  present  depot  in  1888. 


IsTo  and  afterwards  a  new  one  in 
1899.  In  1SS5  the  Presbyterian 
church  was  erected,  and  in  1888  the 
Christian      church.  The      Baptist 

church  was  built  in  1890  and  the 
Catholic  in  1895.  For  statistics  of 
the  churches  see  sketches  of  their 
pastors. 


Public  Schools. 

The  late  school  census  gives  to 
Carterville  the  following  figures: 
School  age,  6  to  21  years,  male  4C6. 
female,   .t14;    total.  9Sn. 

It  has  e.xcellent  oflScers  and  teach- 
ers of  the  different  grades  and  two 
fine  school  buildings.  A  neat  frame 
building  of  two  stories  with  four 
rooms  was  built  in  1895  and  a  large 
commodious,  well-lighted  brick  built 
in  1898.  An  excellent  school  library 
has  been  provided  by  the  Board  of 
Education,  which  comprises  the  fol- 
lowing gentlemen:  Dr.  J.  W.  Vick, 
President:  ,1.  L.  Gallimore,  Secre- 
tary: A.  K.  Elles,  F.  C.  Bevard,  M. 
Bulliner.  C.  E.  Owen,  ,Iacob  West. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the 
teachers  at  the  present  time:  W.  L. 
Ozment,  Supt.:  Taylor  Black.  Prin- 
cipal; Mamie  Coleman,  Primary: 
Nora  Ferrill,  Assistant  Principal: 
Sadie  Campbell,  3rd  Room:  Anna  :\I. 
Pullum,  Emma  Chester.  4th  grade: 
Tirzah,  Fay  Goodwin,.  Jlina  E.  Hub- 
bell   and   Byrch   Chamness. 


Trauspoi-tation. 

With  the  exception  of  the  services 
of  the  Coal  Belt  Electric  Railroad, 
which  conveys  passengers  and  their 
baggage  principally,  the  City  of  Car- 
terville is  wholly  dependent  upon 
the  old  Carbondale  and  Shawnee- 
town    Railroad,   now    owned   ani   op- 


Ooal    Mining. 

While  Williamson  County  is  es- 
sentially an  agricultural  County, 
coal  mining  has  become  its  most  ex- 
tensive and  its  most  important  in- 
dustry, and  of  that  industry  Carter- 
ville is  the  largest  center.  Coal  was 
discovered  near  Carterville  about 
l'^69  by  Mr.  Laban  Carter,  in  whose 
honor  the  city  was  named.  The  first 
mine  was  opened  by  Connor  and  Bry- 
den,  and  was  operated  as  a  slope.  A 
few  years  later  the  Carterville  Coal 
and  Coke  Company,  under  the  man- 
agement of  A.  C.  Bryden,  opened  the 
Dodd  Shaft  and  Lafiin  Slope.  In 
ISSl  .John  Adam  Young  opened  a 
mine,  which  has  furnished  the 
larger  portion  of  coal  for  local  use. 

In  1888  the  Carterville  Coal  Co. 
oijened  the  Barr  Shaft  on  the  farm  of 
Elijah  Peterson,  three-quarters  of  a 
mile  northeast  of  the  City.  In  1896 
the  Prosperity  Shaft  was  opened  by 
the  Scott  Wilson  Coal  Co.,  now 
known  as  the  New  Ohio  Washed 
Coal  Company,  who  also  operate  the 
Fredonia  mines,  located  on  the  G. 
Kennedy  farm,  two  and  a  half  miles 
northwest  of  the  City.  This  Com- 
pany has  lately  built  one  of  the  fin- 
est coal  washing  plants  in  the  State 
of    Illinois. 

Other  mines  now  in  operation  near 
the  City  are  the  St.  Louis  and  Big 
Muddy  Coal  Company,  the  Donaly 
and  Koenneck.  the  Carterville  Coal 
Company  is  opening  another  shaft 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  northwest 
of  the  City,  and  several  other  com- 
panies    have    the    opening    of     new 


Churches. 

The  first  religious  services  held  in 
Carterville  were  in  1871,  a  year  be- 
fore the  Village  charter  was  grant- 
ed, by  Henry  Boles.  Elder  Henry 
Boles,  a  Christian  preache^-,  held  a 
revival  meeting  in  1887,  which  re- 
sulted   in    200    conversions. 

The    M.    E.    church    was    built    in 


HOPR    ELECTRIC  LIGHT  PLANT. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 

Cartei'ville   Uiot. 


GROUP  OF   FOUR  GEXERATIOXS. 
Lemons   Boren,   Carterville.   111.;  Ephriam  Boren.  his  son; 
his  grandson;   John  Boren.  his   great  grand  son. 


mines  in  the  vicinity  in  the  near  fu- 
ture. Among  the  first  mines  of  Car- 
terville may  be  mentioned  David 
Waldron,  Sr.;  Alex.  Hutton,  Sr. ; 
David  Thomas,  David  True,  B.  P. 
Bandy,  Perrin  Spiller,  William  Holt. 
Thomas  Carrie,  John  Hadfield,  John 
Royatt,  Walter  Royatt,  Thomas 
Lauder,  Sr.,  John  Lauder,  Alex.  Lau- 
der, William  Ceitry,  James  Thomp- 
son. 


Alonzo  Bo- 


Tliis  bloody  riot  and  the  cause.s 
which  led  to  it,  is  so  well  told  by  the 
Chicago  Inter  Ocean  in  an  interview 
with  Mr.  Sam  T.  Brush,  the  man- 
ager of  the  mine  where  it  occurred 
that  the  Souvenir  is  content  with 
presenting  the  account  entire,  belie\- 
ing  that  it  contains  the  substantial 
truth. 

"In  1890,  assisted  by  the  late 
Mayor  E.  C.  Dawes,  of  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  I  organized  the  St.  Louis  and 
Big  Muddy  Coal  Company,  for  the 
purpose  of  mining  and  shipping  coal 
from  Jackson  and  Williamson  Coun- 
ties,   Illinois."    said    Mr.    Brush. 

"Fpon  the  organization  of  the 
Company  I  was  appointed  general 
manager,  which  position  I  have  held 
until  the  present  time. 

"In  May,  1S9-5,  owing  to  the  death 
of  Major  Dawes,  who  was  President 
of  the  Company,  and  to  adverse  busi- 
ness conditons,  the  company  was  put 
into  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  and  bj' 
special  order  of  the  United  States 
Court,  I  was  continued  as  general 
manager   of   the   business. 

"This  company,  like  all  others, 
has  had  its  experience  with  strikes. 
In  1894.  1896  and  1897  troubles  of 
that  nature  confronted  us,  but  were 
amicably  settled  to  the  satisfaction 
of  both   parties. 

"Early  in  1896,  my  men  having 
been  induced  to  strike  through  the 
machinations  of  the  Miners  Union,  I 
found  it  necessary  to  bring  in  negro 
laborers  in  large  bodies,  as  it  was 
found  impossible  to  let  men  go  to 
the  mines  unaided  or  unprotected. 
Before  employing  the  negroes  I 
called  upon  the  committee  represent- 
ing my  men,  and  told  them  that  I 
had  arranged  to  bring  from  the 
Southern    States    enough    negroes    to 


Fraternal   Order.s. 

The  following  Fraternal  Orders 
are  well  established  in  Carterville; 
The  A.  F.  &  A.  M..  I.  O.  O.  F.,  Mod- 
ern Woodmen  of  America,  A.  O.  \J. 
W.,  Knights  of  Pythias,  Red  Men. 
G.  A.  R.,  Daughters  of  Rebekah. 
Royal  Neighbors.  The  Labor  Or- 
ganizations are  well  represented, 
numerous  an1  firmly  established. 
The  following  are  the  principal 
Unions;  The  United  Mine  Workers 
of  America  have  four  locals  here; 
the  Team  Drivers  Union,  the  Retail 
Clerks,  Carpenters  and  Barbers  all 
have  locals. 


THOMPSON  HOUSE.  Mrs.    Mary   Barth,   Proprietor. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


THE  PROFESSORS  AND  TEA 

Left   to  right.      Top  Row — Miss 

Lentz,  Supt.:    Miss  Mayme  McRaven, 


CHERS  AT  CREAL  SPRI.XGS. 
Mamie      Hutchinson,      Prof.     Gilliert 
Prof.  N.   H.  Fry,  Isaac  Gifford. 


worlv  the  mines;  that  I  did  not  wish 
to  do  so,  and  understanding  that 
many  of  my  old  employes  were  in 
distress,  I  offered  to  give  for  distri- 
bution among  the  needy  1100  0  in 
cash  if  they  would  call  my  miners 
together  and  induce  them  to  go  to 
work  by  a  certain  day. 

"The  committee.  all  fair  men. 
regularly  took  up  the  proposition, 
and  assured  me  that  they  believed 
the  miners  would  accept  it.  A  meet- 
ing was  called  for  the  purpose  of 
discussing  the  proposition.  The  offi- 
cials of  the  State  Miners  Associa- 
tion heard  of  the  proposed  meeting, 
and  immediately  sent  representatives 
to  Carterville  to  protest  against  the 
acceptance  of  the  proposition. 

"Mr.  Ryan,  present  State  Secre- 
tary of  the  miners'  organization, 
came  to  Carterville  and  advised  the 
miners  not  to  enter  into  any  agree- 
ment. Accordingly,  the  proposition 
was  rejected,  and  when  the  time  ex- 
pired, the  negroes,  who  had  already 
been  engaged,  and  were  in  charge 
of  my  son,  .Tames  C.  Brush,  at  Jel- 
lico,  Tenn..  were  brought  through 
on  a  special  train  to  Carterville  and 
landed  at  the  mines  on  the  morning 
of   May   20,   1S9.S. 

"They  went  to  work  at  once,  and 
began  to  get  out  a  large  amount  of 
coal.  They  worked  without  molesta- 
tion a  week,  when  a  mob  of  1500 
men,  composed  of  miners  and  men 
claiming  to  be  miners,  from  Bell- 
ville,  Duquoin  and  other  adjacent 
towns  in  Southern  Illinois,  assem- 
bled at  Carterville,  threatening  to 
drive  away  the  negroes  and  to  de- 
stroy the  mining  property  of  the  St. 
Louis  and  Big  Muddy  Coal  Company 
if  the  managers  refused  to  discharge 
the  negroes  and  reemploy  the  strik- 
ing miners.  The  Sheriff  came  to 
Carterville,  swore  in  a  number  of 
deputies  and  went  into  the  town. 
compelling    the    mob    to    leave,    and 


en  Ans  the  trouble  for  that  time. 

"It  then  seemed  to  be  accepted 
that  the  negroes  had  come  to  stay, 
and  that  it  would  be  useless  to  at- 
tempt  to    drive   them   out. It   was   re- 


ported, and  no  doubt  was  true,  that 
Mr.  Mitchell,  now  the  Pre.sident  of 
the  United  Mine  Workers  of  Ameri- 
ca, came  to  Carterville  and  advised 
the  miners  that  they  had  no  right 
to  interfere  with  the  operations  of 
the  St.  Louis  and  Big  Muldy  Coal 
Company's  mines,  and,  had  his  ad- 
vice been  followed,  it  is  probable 
that  the  recent  troubles  would  not 
have  occurred. 

"After  July,  1S9S,  nearly  all  the 
old  employes  of  the  company  applied 
to  .lames  Donnelly,  manager  of  the 
mines,  for  work,  and  under  instruc- 
tions from  me  to  employ  such  men 
as  he  needed,  rejecting  only  such  as 
had  been  known  to  have  engaged  in 
acts  of  violence,  he  re-einployed 
something  like  100  of  the  white 
miners,  who  worked  peacably  and 
apparently  without  friction  with  the 
colored  miners,  producing  from  July 
1,  1S9S,  to  May  1-5,  1S99,  the  larg- 
est average  output  of  coal  that  the 
mine  ever  made,  an  output  larger 
than  any  other  mine  in  the  State 
had   produced. 

"The  miners  were  perfectly  satis- 
fied, and  at  no  time  made  a  demand 
for  an  increase  of  wages  or  for  re- 
dress of  any  grievances.        Previous 


BOARD  OF   EDrCATlO.X,  Creal  Springs. 
Top  Row — J.  F.  Miller.  W.  T.  H  arris.      Second   Row- 
Gaskill. 


\V.   S.    Brin,   B. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


CONCiREGATIONAL    CHURCH   AT  CREAL  SPRINGS,   ILL. 


to  April  1st,  the  Brush  men  held  a 
meeting  anJ  re-affirmed  their  old 
contract,  according  to  the  same  rate 
for   which   they   had   been   working. 

"It  seemed  that  there  could  be  no 
further  trouble,  but  the  arrange- 
ment was  not  satisfactory  to  the 
United  Mine  Workers,  and  they  at 
once  began  to  make  trouble.  About 
the  first  of  May  three  of  the  em- 
ployes of  the  coal  company  came  to 
me  to  make  complaint  about  their 
wages.  The  men  told  me  if  I  would 
give  them  eight  hours  a  day  instead 
of  ten,  I  would  not  have  any  more 
trouble  with  the  union  men,  and 
would  be  allowed  to  work  in  peace. 
To  this  I  agreed,  and  the  eight-hour 
day  was  adopted.  When  the  three 
men  came  to  me  I  asked  if  they  re- 
presented the  Union,  saying  that  I 
would  not  treat  with  any  one  repre- 
senting the  Miners'  Union,  as  that 
organization  had  utterly  failed  in 
the  past  to  keep  its  promises  to  me. 
The  men  disclaimed  any  connection 
with  the  Miners'  Union,  and  pro- 
tested that  they  only  came  to  pre- 
sent their  individual  grievances. 
When  I  went  to  the  mines  I  called 
Mr.  Donnelly,  the  mine  manager,  to 
my  office  and  told  him  what  I  had 
said  to  the  three  men,  advising  him 
to  put  them  on  the  roll  at  the  rate 
agreed  upon,  whereupon  I  was  In- 
formed by  him  that  those  three  men 
had  been  sent  as  a  committee  from  a 
lodge  that  had  been  organized  by  my 
men  without  my  knowledge. 

"Immediately  the  men  were  dis- 
charged because  they  had  misrepre- 
sented the  situation  and  had  In- 
duced me  to  make  concessions  that 
would  have  resulted  in  the  claim  be- 
ing made  that  I  had  recognized  the 
Miners'  Union  and  would  be  bound 
to  carry  out  such  demands  as  my 
men  might  make. 


"At  once  a  strike  was  ordered. 
Nearly  all  the  colored  men  refused 
to  strike  and  with  Irew  from  the  se- 
cret organization  that  had  been 
formed.  In  order  to  replace  the 
men  who  had  left  my  employment, 
I  sent  to  Tennessee  and  got  thirty 
or  forty  men,  and  had  arranged  for 
more  when  I  learned  that  I  could 
get  as  many  miners  as  I  wanted  at 
Pana,  the  operators  there  having 
been   induced      to   send    their     negro 


miners  away.  One  of  them  tele- 
graphed to  me  requesting  me  to 
send  up  and  get  some  of  the  best 
men  who  were  there  without  means 
and  without  any  prospect  of  employ- 
ment. On  June  2.Sth,  my  son  went 
lo  Pana,  and  with  the  assistance  of 
one  of  our  employes  who  knew  the 
colored  miners  at  Pana,  secured 
about  forty  miners  with  their  fam- 
ilies, who  agreed  to  go  to  Carterville 
to  woik.  When  two  miles  from  our 
mines  the  coach  in  which  the  men 
and  their  families  were  traveling 
was  fired  upon  and  one  negro  woman 
was  killed.  This  was  on  June  30. 
Many  of  the  participants  in  the  at- 
tack upon  the  train  have  been  ar- 
rested and  are  held  for  murder. 
The  trial  is  set  for  the  fourth  Mon- 
day in  September. 

"Trouble  has  continued  at  the 
mines.  I  have  to  go  about  with  an 
escort  all  the  time,  having  been  as- 
saulted in  the  city  of  Murphysboro 
on  the  night  of  August  12th.  by  two 
men  who  laid  in  ambush  for  me  as 
I  was  going  from  my  hotel  to  the 
train.  An  attempt  was  made  to  as- 
sault me  on  Thursday  last,  and  on 
I'liday  two  negroes  were  driven  out 
of  town.  On  Saturday  three  white 
men,  who  are  members  of  the  mil- 
itia company,  but  who  were  not  on 
duty  at  the  time,  were  assaulted  in 
Carterville  by  the  same  men,  who, 
with  others,  assaulted  and  killed  the 
five  negroes.  A  large  number  of 
the  men  who  participated  in  that 
crime  are  known.  Their  names  have 
been  given  to  the  coroner's  jury  and 


M.  E.  CHURCH  AT  CREAL  SPRINGS. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


PUBLIC  OFFICERS  OF   Ci;EAI>   SPRINGS. 
Top   Row — Edward   Sullin,   Clerk;   G.  W.  Dempsey,  Alderman;   J.  L. 
Gully,    Alderman.      Second    Row — Jo  hn   Dupont,   Alderman;    Henry  Wals- 
ton.  Mayor;   W.  L.  Harris,  Alderman. 


they  will  be  held  for  murder. 

"The  Governor  has  assured  the 
authorities  of  Williamson  County 
that  they  will  be  offered  every  facil- 
ity for  prosecuting  all  of  the  men 
engaged   in    these   riots. 

"On  the  same  day  that  the  ne- 
groes were  killed,  armed  men  went 
through  the  train  frotii  Carbondale 
to  Carterville  searching  for  me  and 
threatened  to  kill  me.  Several  of 
the  men  now  under  arrest  for  the 
killing  on  Sunday  will  be  indicted 
for  the  murder  of  June  30th,  and 
will  also  be  prosecuted  for  threaten- 
ing to  kill  me  and  for  destroying 
mining    property. 

"While  the  mine-owners  have 
iDeen  assured  of  protection  from  the 
county  and  State,  they  have  not 
found  that  such  protection  was  af- 
forded them  until  disaster  came,  and 
as  a  result,  have  not  depended  en- 
tirely upon  such  precautions,  but 
have  provide t  arms  of  their  own  in 
sufficient  quantity  and  of  the  best 
quality  to  be  used  by  their  trusted 
employes  in  case  of  emergency.  This 
fact  being  known  to  the  strikers,  has 
prevented  them  from  coming  near 
enough  to  the  mines  to  destroy  the 
property,  although  it  has  been  dis- 
covered that  on  the  night  of  July  1st 
they  brought  dynamite  and  secreted 
it  in  a  wheat-shock  only  a  short  dis- 
tance from  the  houses  occupied  by 
the  miners. 

"There  is  no  doubt  that  if  such 
precaution  had  not  been  taken  Wil- 
liamson county  wouli  today  be  re- 
sponsible for  the  loss  of  the  prop- 
erty belonging  to  the  St.  Louis  and 
Big  Muddy  Coal  Company. 

"I    do   not    believe    in    keeping   an 


armed  body  of  men,  nor  do  I  think 
it  creditable  that  I  have  to  go  around 
armed  for  protection.  But  I  have 
found  on  several  occasions  lately 
that  I  would  not  have  escaped  had  I 
not   been   ready   to   defend    myself. 

"The  five  negroes  killed  were 
above  the  average  miners  in  intelli- 
gence, and  were  among  the  best  men 
we  had.  They  did  not  go  to  the  city 
nor  to  the  railroad  for  the  purpose 
of  making  trouble,  but  on  the  con- 
trary some  of  them  went  to  take  the 
train  and  others  expected  friends  on 


the  train  that  arrived  at  Carterville 
at  noon  on  Sunday.  One  of  the  men 
went  to  the  train  for  the  purpose  of 
going  to  Pulaski,  Tenn..  to  attend 
the  funeral  of  his  mother,  another 
went  for  the  purpose  of  meeting  his 
wife  and  two  children  who  were 
coming  from  Mt.  Vernon.  111.  Some 
of  the  others  intended  to  go  to  Ma- 
rion to  attend  church  service,  as 
the  colored  people  have  no  church 
at  Carterville.  Knowing  that  there 
was  public  feeling  against  them  in 
the  town  of  Carterville.  these  men 
were  afraid  to  go  through  the  town, 
an  i  would  not  have  done  so  had  it 
not  been  for  the  one  who  wanted  to 
go  to  his  luother's  funeral,  and  the 
other  who  wanted  to  meet  his  wife 
and  children.  The  colored  people 
got  together  at  their  school  house  on 
the  mine  property  on  Sunday  morn- 
ing, and  selected  a  few  of  their  best 
men  to  go  to  Carterville  with  their 
friends.  They  took  men  who  did 
not  drink  and  who  were  old  enough 
to  have  good  judgment.  They  did 
not  go  into  the  town  until  just  in 
time  to  meet  the  train.  They  went 
to  the  depot  quietly,  and  the  agent 
of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
states  that  they  were  not  making 
any  disturbance  or  provoking  any- 
one, whatever.  A  mob  of  men  came 
into  the  depot  with  guns  and  or- 
dered the  negroes  to  leave  the  place 
and  to  get  out  of  town.  The  ne- 
groes, some  of  them  with  tickets  in 
their  pockets,  left  the  depot,  driven 
by  the  white  men  with  guns  in  their 
hands  down  the  road.  It  is  claimed 
that  one  of  them  firel  into  the  crowd 
at  a  boy,  but,  as  it  is  said  by  one  of 
Carterville's  citizens,  the  boy  dodged 
the  bullet.  This  shot,  it  is  claimed, 
caused    the    shooting. 

"At  all  events,  the  armed  strikers 


MISSIONARY   HAI'I  k 


A  I     CREAL   SPRINGS,    ILL. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


and  came  to  Carterville  in  Deceni- 
bfr,  IsitT.  Mr.  Peyton's  start  in 
Ijusiness  began  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen, in  a  store  at  Pinckneyville, 
later  in  the  restaurant  business  at 
Union  City,  Tenn.,  with  a  brother, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Peyton  Bros., 
which  continued  from  1895  to  1897 
inclusive,  when  in  .January,  1S9S, 
lie  acteptel  the  position  of  manager 
of  the  Carterville  Store  Go's,  store. 
-Mr.  Peyton  is  a  member  of  the  A. 
F.  &  A.  M.,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  Mod- 
ern Woodmen.  His  father,  Robt.  S. 
Peyton,  was  born  near  Hopkinsville, 
Ky.,  and  his  mother,  Harriet  B., 
near  Marion,  Ky.  The  brilliant  ca- 
reer of  Mr.  Peyton  is  due  to  his 
strict  attention  to  his  duties  and  un- 
ceasing efforts  to  please  the  patrons 
of  the  store. 


Carterville   State   and   Savings    Bank. 


CITY  HALL,   Carterville. 


began  firing  at  the  negroes,  killing 
four  of  them  outright  and  wounding 
another,  who  died  soon  afterwards. 
None  of  the  white  people  were  killed 
or  hurt.  This  record  tells  its  own 
story." — Inter  Ocean,  copied  in  Ma- 
rion Leader,  October  5,   18  99. 

The  names  of  the  killed  are:  Rev. 
O.  T.  J.  Floy  3,  Huse  Bradley,  John 
Black,  Henry  Branuni,  Sim  Cum- 
mins. 

T.  L.  Roberts.  Foreman  of  the 
Grand  Jury:  names  of  the  indicted: 
Robert  Hadfield,  Math  Walker,  El- 
mer James,  Lem  Shadowen,  Wesley 
Shadowen,  Charles  Shadowen.  Rich- 
ard Kelley,  Win.  Kelley,  John  W^al- 
lace,  Willis  Carney,  Jack  Naugh, 
Frank   Grider. 

The  attorneys  for  the  State  were 
the  following:  R.  R.  Fowler,  States 
Attorney  for  Williamson  County; 
George  B.  Gillespie,  States  Attorney 
for  Johnson  County;  W.  W.  Clem- 
mens,  Marion:  Ed  Spiller,  Marion; 
F.  M.  Youngblood,  Carbondale; 
Judge  W.  W.  Barr,  Carbondale, 

On  the  defence:  Ex-Governor 
Johnson,  of  St.  Louis:  Lendoff  Whit- 
nell.  Vienna:  )V.  A.  Spann,  Vienna: 
J.  L.  Gallimore.  Carterville:  R.  B. 
Morton,  Carterville;  W.  W.  Duncan, 
Marion. 

The  case  was  taken  on  a  change 
of  venue  to  Johnson  County,  an1  on 
the  trial  of  the  case,  all  the  defend- 
ants  were   discharged. 

The  financial  result  of  the  riot  to 
W'illiamson  County  was  a  debt  of 
$20,000,  of  which,  after  the  1904 
taxes  are  paid,  there  yet  remains 
about   $2,000   to  pay. 


first  day  of  January,  1898,  handling 
principally  groceries,  dry  goods  and 
shoes,  and  showing  one  of  the  neat- 
est and  best  kept  stocks  in  William- 
son County,  whose  constant  aim  is  to 
be  fair  in  their  treatment  of  their 
customers  by  giving  them  goo  1  val- 
ue in  all  purchases,  and  truly  said, 
they  are  not  satisfied  unless  their 
customers  are  satisfied.  The  pros- 
perity enjoyed  by  this  store  has 
gradually  increased,  as  evidenced  by 
the  volume  of  business  year  by  year. 
This  Company  confidently  expects  to 
surpass  all  other  years,  in  point  of 
sales,  in  1904.  Credit  for  this  phe- 
nominal  business  is  in  a  measure 
largely  due  to  its  able  manager,  Mr. 
Willard  Peyton,  who  was  born  March 
6,     1ST4,    at    Pinckneyville,    Illinois, 


Cartei'ville  Store  Co. 

Prominent  among  the  mercantile 
interests  of  Carterville,  Illinois, 
stands  the  Carterville  Store  Co.. 
which  entered  a  business  life  on  the 


With  the  blossoming  from  Town 
to  City,  the  necessities  of  the  mer- 
chants, citizens  and  manufacturers 
demand  financial  institutions,  the 
combination  of  commercial  and  fi- 
nancial interests  of  any  location  cen- 
ters in  the  strength  and  character 
of  its  banks,  and  especially  is  this 
true  in  Carterville,  Williamson  Co., 
Illinois,  which  has  in  the  last  four 
years  nearly  doubled  its  population, 
and  where  many  of  the  leading  mer- 
chants, mine  and  land  owners,  are 
stockholders  in  the  Carterville  State 
and  Savings  Bank,  successor  to  the 
Bank  of  Carterville.  About  thirty- 
five  of  the  hustling  promoters  of  Car- 
terville's  best  interests,  represent- 
ing the  wealthiest  and  most  influen- 
tial citizens  of  the  City  and  County, 
organized  the  Carterville  State  and 
Savings  Bank,  which  opened  its 
doors  for  business  on  the  thirteenth 


SCHOOL  HOUSE  AT     CREAL  SPRINGS. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


THE  OZARK   HOTEL,  fieal  Sinint 


day  of  April.  1904,  with  $50,1)00.00 
capital.  S.  H.  Bundy  was  president: 
J.  B.  Samuel,  vice  president;  M.  W. 
Sizemore,  cashier,  and  the  following 
directors:  S.  H.  Bundy,  J.  B.  Sam- 
uel, Ed.  A.  Elles,  L.  J.  Moaks,  H.  F. 
Arnold,  P.  H.  Carroll,  W.  C.  Mc- 
Neill, F.  H.  Koennecke  and  W.  S. 
Wilson.  The  remarkable  growth  of 
this  bank  is  best  evidenced  by  its 
1216,000.00  of  deposits  and  loans 
of  $165,000,011  at  this  writing,  but 
forty-five  days  of  age.  This  flour- 
ishing condition  is  due  to  the  strict- 
est and  most  conservative  business 
methods,  obliging  and  courteous 
treatment  to  the  public,  consistant 
with  good  banking  by  an  efficient 
corps  of  experienced  gentlemen, 
whose  names  as  officers  and  stock- 
holders are  a  guarantee  of  the  solid- 
ity of   the   bank. 


serves  to  be  held  in  everlasting  re- 
membrance. She  was  born  August 
8th,  1832,  at  Bainbridge,  and  she 
and  her  husband  were  school-mates 
from  childhood.  Except  in  child- 
bearing  she  was  never  sick  a  day  in 
her  life,  never  had  a  doctor  nor  a 
hired  girl.  She  did  her  own  house- 
work, raised  her  great  family  and 
has  spun  and  woven  as  high  as  100 
yards  of  woolen  cloth  in   a  year. 

At  her  advanced  age  she  scorns 
hired  help  and  gets  about  the  old 
farmhouse  as  sprightly  as  a  maid  of 
20.  She  is  slim  and  trim  as  a  bride, 
quick  and  active,  and  as  ambitious 
as  in  her  girlhood.  Except  for  the 
few  wrinkles  and  an  occasional  grey 
hair,  you  would  hardly  know  that 
time  had  ever  laid  its  hand  upon  her. 


She  and  her  husband  are  co-labor- 
ers still,  but  she  is  the  smarter  of 
the  two.  May  such  mothers  multi- 
ply in  the  land,  and  may  her  sons 
do  her  reverence  and  her  daughters 
follow  in  her  steps. 

But  alas  I  The  sound  of  the  spin- 
ning wheel  is  no  longer  heard  in 
the  land.  Its  busy  hum  has  given 
way  to  the  ear-racking  tuni-tum-tum 
of  the  piano.  The  sons  and  daugh- 
ters have  forsaken  the  farm  and 
families  have  dwindled  to  one  and 
two  or  three.  Alas  for  the  Repub- 
lic if  the  industrial  drift  lead  not 
back  to  the  old  paths. 

In  184S  Mr.  Cagle  bought  his 
present  homestead  among  the  wolves 
and  rattlers,  and  in  1S49  brought  his 
newly  wedded  bride  to  a  home 
where  light  has  been  kept  cheerfully 
burning  until  this  present  hour. 
Neither  had  much  education,  but 
pioneering  gave  them  health  and 
strength  if  it  did  not  give  them  book- 
learning. 

Near  their  home,  among  the  rocks 
along  Crab  Orchard  Creek,  was  a 
den  of  rattlers,  so  numerous  and 
prolific  that  Mr.  Cagle's  predecessor, 
of  whom  he  bought,  killed  300  in 
one  year.  He,  himself,  was  bitten 
but  once,  and  barely  escaped  with 
his  life.  But  the  rattlers  have  long 
ago  gone  to  keep  the  wolves  and 
bears    company. 

In  1852  he  began  to  preach  for 
the  Missionary  Baptists,  and  served 
them  until  a  year  after  the  War.  In 
1866  he  was  licensed  by  the  Free 
Baptists  and  preached  for  them  un- 
til about  three  years  ago,  when  ad- 
vancing age  and  infirmities  brought 
his  labors  to  an  end.  He  enlisted  in 
Co.  B..  1st  Col.  regiment  to  serve  in 
the  Meixcan  War.  but  with  the  rest 
of  those  boys,  he  "bravely  marched 
up  the  hill  only  to  march  down 
again." 


REV.    TIMOTHY    CAGLE, 
Pioneer  Farmer. 


This  venerable  old  gentleman, 
now  close  to  the  SO's,  is  another  liv- 
ing testimonial  to  the  benefits  of  the 
simple  and  regular  habit  of  firm 
life.  He  comes,  too,  of  long-lived 
ancestry  among  the  mountains  of 
Tennessee.  He  was  born  in  Robin- 
son County,  December  -5,  1S2G,  and 
canie.  a  babe  in  his  mothe.-'f  arms, 
and  settled  first  near  the  old  town 
of  Bainbridge.  His  mother,  Polly 
Demumbe,  died  there  at  the  age  of 
65,  and  his  father,  Charles  Cagle, 
lived  to  be  8  5  and  died  near  Little 
Rock,  Ark.  Her  father  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  war  of  the  Revolution 
and  died  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  at  the 
advanced   age  of  110. 

August  2  5,  1849,  Mr.  Cagle  chose 
Caroline  Roberts  for  his  life's  part- 
ner, and  together  they  have  raised 
fourteen  children.  She  is  a  very  re- 
markable,   woman      and     richly    de- 


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SOUX'ENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLLXOIS. 


CREAL    SPRINGS    FREE   BAPTIST  CHURCH,     REV.   J.   \V.   McKlXXEY,   PASTOR. 


In  politics  he  was  a  Republican 
and  alwa.vs  voted  that  ticket,  but 
was  never  an  office-seeker  nor  a 
politician. 

The  names  of  their  children  are: 
William  Cagle.  deceased;  Mrs.  Nan- 
cy, widow  of  Hezekiah  McNeal;  Jas. 
Cagle,  deceased:  Mrs.  Mary  W.,  the 
wife  of  Hiram  Wedkins,  Carterville; 
Pleasant  Cagle,  Charles  Cagle,  Tim- 
othy Cagle,  Carterville:  Martha  Ca- 
gle. Moody  Cagle,  Edwin  Cagle,  Car- 
terville: Mardicai,  deceased:  Mrs. 
Gertie,  wife  of  Grif  Sanders:  Mrs. 
Dolly,  wife  of  Tuck  Hampton:  Mrs. 
Dora,  wife  of  William  Hampton, 
Carterville:  Alfracratls  Cagle,  on 
the  old  farm. 


S.    G.    CHAMNESS. 
Pioneer  Farmer. 


Mr.  Chamness  is  one  of  those  men 
who  never  grow  old.  Erect,  vigor- 
ous and  active,  at  the  age  of  79  he 
is  a  living  epistle  known  and  read 
of  all  men,  and  the  burden  of  it  is 
that  sobriety,  industry  and  religion 
are  a  good  investment  for  this  pres- 
ent life.  He  is  a  native  of  Tennes- 
see, and  was  born  in  Stewart  County 
September  29,  18  25.  He  came  with 
his  parents  to  Belleville  when  but 
three  years  old,  and  in  1846,  when 
about  ten  years  old,  his  parents  set- 
tled near  where  he  still  lives.     The 


only  towns  of  any  importance  in 
that  time  were  Bainbridge  and 
Frankfort. 

Game  was  plentiful  in  those  days, 
and  so  were  wolves  and  rattlers.  It 
was  not  uncommon  for  his  father 
and  older  brothers  to  kill  a  deer  or 
two  before  breakfast.  The  country 
was  timbered  and  roads  were  but 
foot  paths.  It  was  a  long  drive  to 
mill  or  to  meeting,  but  corn  and 
sweet  potatoes  grew  luxuriantly,  and 
there  was  always  plenty  of  venison 
and  wild  turkey.  The  climate  and 
soil  were  all  that  could  be  desired, 
and  for  drink  they  had  the  bubbling 
spring.  They  soon  had  the  lowing 
herd  and  plenty  of  butter  and  milk. 
Hog  and  homony,  bonny-clabber, 
corn  pone,  sweet  and  Irish  pota- 
toes, possum,  wild  turkey  and  fresh 
venison,  with  plenty  of  "punkin  but- 
ter!" What  more  could  the  pioneers 
desire  in  a  home  where  the  doctor 
was  a  stranger  and  peace  and  plenty 
abounded.  No  wonder  his  SO  years 
sit  lightly  on  him.  Had  he  passed 
his  "three  score  years  and  ten"  in 
the  grime  and  the  grind  of  a  great 
city,  his  80  years  would  have  been 
reduced  to  50  or  40,  notwithstanding 
the  vigor  of  his  Tennessee  parent- 
age. He  has  passed  his  years  in 
paradise,  and  will  scarcely  note  a 
change  when  the  gates  open  to  re- 
ceive him  bye  and  bye. 


What  mattered  the  log  house  and 
the  buckskin  breeches?  The  old  log 
house  is  now  a  smoke  house  and  a 
substantial  frame  house  has  long 
ago  replaced  it,  and  the  buckskin 
and  blue  jeans  have  given  way  to 
broadcloth,  but  the  old  man  still 
sighs  for  the  days  of  the  pioneer. 
Fifty-nine  years  next  March  the  old 
pioneer  has  been  rooted  in  the  soil 
of  his  boyhood  days,  and  truly  has 
he   flourished   like  a   green  bay  tree. 

Five  times  has  he  taken  a  wife, 
and  is  now  living  happily  with  his 
fifth  wife.  Twenty-nine  grand  chil- 
dren and  twenty-three  great  grand 
children  rise  up  and  call  him  blessed. 
His  first  wife  was  Harriet  Norris,  to 
whom  he  was  united  Jan.  13,  1845. 
She  died  the  following  September  2  4, 
without  children.  He  married  his 
second  wife  March  1,  1846.  By  her 
he  had  six  children,  of  whom  five 
still  survive;  J.  C.  Chamness,  a  pros- 
perous farmer  and  stock  raiser  in 
the  neighborhood;  Draiton  Cham- 
ness, who  died  when  three  years 
old;  Mary,  the  wife  of  George  Pen- 
tecost; Samantha,  wife  of  Rev.  A. 
A.  Brown,  of  Rentfrow,  Oklahoma, 
and  Sylvester  Chamness,  of  Creal 
Springs,  111.  His  second  wife  died 
and  for  a  third  wife  he  took  Ann 
.Tones.  By  her  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren, E.  A.  Chamness,  on  the  home 
place:    Xora,    who    died    in    infancy; 


SOU\'EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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II. II    |H).\Xi:iJ.Y    MIXK,  Cartei-ville.   Illi 


Albert  B.  Chanmess,  who  runs  the 
store  at  Cottage  Home:  Libbie,  who 
married  Joe  Osborn,  and  died  in 
1902;  Cora,  the  wife  of  Elijah 
Blankenship.  Then  followed  a  pair 
of  twin  boys  who  died  in  infancy. 
His  fourth  wife  was  Fanny  Norris, 
whom  he  married  November  22, 
1S9II.  She  dieJ  September  14,  1900, 
and  then  the  aged  patriarch  took  a 
wife,  Ruth  Jones,  with  whom  he  is 
still  living.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  pol- 
itics and  a  deacon  for  50  years  in 
the  Missionary  Baptist  Church.  His 
schooling  was  limited  but  his  native 
sense  unbounded. 


ELDER   F.   L.    DAVIS, 
Pastor    of    Christian    Church. 


Was  born  near  Bloomington,  Mc- 
Lean County,  Illinois.  September  3, 
ISTl.  He  is  a  second  cousin  to  the 
late  David  Davis  of  Bloomington, 
whom  he  greatlj'  resembles,  both 
physically  and  mentally,  pulling 
down  the  scales  to  3  2.5  pounds  avor- 
dupois.  and  demonstrating  his  claim 
of  being  one  of  the  solidest  men  in 
the  State.  He  is  very  proud  of  hav- 
ing been  reared  on  a  farm  by  his 
father,  who  was  also  reared  to  the 
plow.  And  it  may  be  added  (en 
passant)  that  this  unusual  cause  of 
gratulation  to  Mr.  Davis  is  fortun- 
ately becoming  less  a  rarity  than 
in  former  years.  It  is  gradually  be- 
ing comprehended  that  moral,  physi- 
cal and  intellectual  well-being  is 
closely  allied  to  the  soil  and  to  de- 
spise the  farm  is  analagous  to  going 
back  on  one's  own  mother.  When 
told  that  his  "Great  Father"  would 
have  a  "talk"  with  him  (meaning 
the  Government  Agentl,  Red  Jacket 
is  reported  to  have  tossed  his  head 
proudly  and  retorted  "My  Father! 
God  is  my  father  and  the  earth  is  my 
mother.  I  will  recline  upon  her 
bosom."     Happy  will  it  be  when  the 


shallow  contempt  for  the  farm,  still 
too  prevalent,  shall  give  place  to  the 
love  and  honor  Brother  Davis  feels 
for  it,  and  men  forsake  the  grime 
and  misery  and  want  of  the  crowded 
city  for  the  pu.e  air  and  sunlight, 
the  peace  and   plenty   of  the   farm. 

Very  just  and  honorable  is  Broth- 
er Davis'  pride  in  having  been 
reared  on  a  farm,  it  was  a  good 
start.  Nearly  all  of  America's  great 
men,  like  the  giant  oaks  and  the 
fruitful  vines  and  trees,  were  first 
planted  in  the  fruitful  soil  of  the 
country  they  love  and  honor.  Pig- 
mies and  criminals  are  bred  in  the 
cities,  giants  on  the  farm,  witness 
Brother  Davis'  32  5  pounds  avoirdu- 
pois. And  as  the  farm  witnesses  to 
health  and  vigor  of  mind,  so  does 
his  education  speak  words  of  praise 
for  our  incomparable  common 
school  system,  for  he  received  his 
first    schooling   in    intervals   common 


to  the  schoolboy  in  his  farm  life.  He 
was  educated,  so  to  speak,  with  his 
hands  upon  the  plow  handles.  But 
he  didn't  stop  at  the  "little  red 
school  house."  September  12th, 
1892,  he  entered  Eureka  College, 
where  he  pursued  his  studies  for 
three  years,  until  June,  1895.  The 
following  September  he  entered 
Wesley  University  at  Bloomington, 
where  he  spent  another  year.  In 
September,  1901,  he  entered  Drake 
University,  where  he  spent  two 
terms.  He  ceased  his  course  of 
study  with  a  course  in  the  Golden 
Cross  Eye,  Ear,  Nose  and  Throat 
College  in  Chicago,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1903,  with  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Optics.  In  the  Spring 
of  1892  he  was  converted  and  first 
began  to  preach  April  Sth,  in  his  na- 
tive town  of  Hayworth.  Prom  that 
time  on  till  the  present  his  life  has 
been  spent  in  the  gospel  ministry. 
Although  active  and  efficient  as  a 
pastor,  much  of  his  time  has  been, 
by  preference,  devoted  to  Evangelis- 
tic work.  He  has  served  weak  and 
struggling  churches  the  greater  part 
of  the  time,  and  sounded  out  the 
word  of  lite  in  the  regions  beyond. 
After  laboring  for  a  while  in  his  na- 
tive town,  he  went,  in  the  fall  of 
1896,  to  Miriden,  Chorokee  Co., 
Iowa,  thence  to  Esterville  in  Emmitt 
County:  from  there  to  Dows.  where 
in  seven  months'  work  he  estab- 
lished a  good  congregation  and 
erected  a  church  at  a  cost  of  $3000. 

From  Dows  he  moved  to  Charles 
City.  Floyd  County,  then  to  Tama 
and  then  spent  a  straight  eighteen 
months  evangelizing  with  his  home 
at  Des  Moines. 

From  Des  Moines  he  went  to  Red- 
wood Falls,  Minnesota,  where  he  re- 
mained but  ten  months  and  moved 
to  Clinton,  Iowa.  His  pastorate  at 
Carterville  began  at  the  close  of  his 
term  as  State  Evangelist,  to  which 
he  was  appointed  by  the  State  Board 


PROSPERITY   MINE,  Carterville,  111. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


G.   B.   RUSSELL, 
Photographer,   Herrin,   111. 


WILLARD   PEYTON, 

Manager   Carterville   Store   Co.,    Car- 

terville.  111. 


JOE  E.   KELLEY, 
Carterville,   Illinois. 


of   the   Illinois   Christian    Missionary 
Societ.v  in  the  fall  of  190;J. 

His  vigorous  and  faithful  work  is 
evidenced  b.v  the  fact  that  since  the 
middle  of  November,  1896.  he  has 
held  26  protracted  meetings  and  has 
missed  but  seven  Sundays  from  the 
pulpit. 

His  marriage  took  place  Septem- 
ber 15,  1S97.  to  Miss  Evalina  Mor- 
row, of  Clinton,  111.,  by  whom  he  has 
had  three  children,  two  boys  and 
one  girl,  all  living. 

The  membership  of  the  church  is 
now  about  1T5#  and  the  house  will 
seat  about   300. 

The  following  are  its  officers: 
P.  L.  Davis,  pastor;  J.  A.  Lauder, 
clerk:  .1.  D.  Winning,  W.  J.  Wheat- 
ley,  .1.  C.  Davis,  J.  M  .Brown,  el- 
ders: Grant  EHers,  .T.  A.  Lauder,  J. 
V.  Walker,  .Joseph  Stock,  deacons: 
,1.  D.  Winning,  Jeff  Cox,  J.  A.  Lau- 
der, Trustees.  Choir,  J.  A.  Lauder. 
leader;  J.  C.  Davis,  assistant  leader 
and  tenor:  Miss  Lilly  D.  Holland,  or- 
ganist; Clyde  Davis,  William  Be- 
vard,  tenors:  Clyde  Hunter,  Thos. 
Philips,  T.  B.  Zimmerman,  Robert 
Bandy,  bass:  Mrs.  L.  C.  Holland, 
Miss  Pearl  Stone,  Miss  Minnie  Pittz, 
Miss  Electa  Stone,  Miss  Mable  Car- 
ney, Miss  Murial  Hall,  Miss  Grace 
Crowell.  Harry  Jackson,  Miss  Sada 
Campbell  ,  sopranos:  Miss  Rhea 
Walker,  Miss  Mattie  Lewis  and  Miss 
Lilly  Holland,  altos. 

Christian  Endeavor,  membership. 
55;  Robert  Baniy.  president:  Miss 
Rhea  Walker,  secretary. 

Sunday  School,  membership  140; 
J.  W.  Wheatley,  Suptreintendent: 
Jeff  Cox,  Assistant  Superintendent: 
Robert  Bandy,  secretary;  Miss  Rhea 
Walker,  Assistant  Secretary. 


REV.   J.    H.   ALLEN. 

Pastor  of  Missionary  Baptist  Church 

at  Carterville. 


Was  born  near  McLeansboro, 
Hamilton  County,  111.,  April  1,  1S60. 
His  youth  was  spent  on  a  farm,  and 
his  early  education  acquired  at  our 
common  schools.  He  married  young, 
selecting  his  life's  partner  when  but 
IS  years  old.  This  was  Miss  Louisa 
Goodwin,  to  whom  be  was  united 
September  4.  1S7S.  and  of  whom  has 
been  born  seven  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living. 

He  began  to  preach  when  3  2  years 
old.  was  ordained  and  enterel  the 
regular  ministry  of  the  Missionary 
Baptist  church.  Soon  after  his  or- 
dination, however,  feeling  the  need 
of  a  better  preparation  for  his  chosen 
work,  he  entered  Ewing  College, 
where  he  pursued  his  studies  for 
four  years,  preaching  the  meanwhile 
as   opportunity   presented. 

At  the  end  of  that  period,  how- 
ever, he  took  hold  of  the  regular 
work  and  served  churches  at  Union, 
Middle  Creek  and  Benton,  in  Ham- 
ilton and  Franklin  Counties.  After 
serving  these  churches  about  four 
years  successfully,  he  enlarged  his 
sphere  of  usefulness  by  evangelistic 
and  pastoral  work  in  Hamilton,  Jeff- 
erson, St.  Clair  and  White  Counties 
until  1S99,  when  he  was  chosen  as 
Missionary  by  the  Board  of  the  Nine 
Mile  Missionary  Association,  which 
he  served  for  two  years,  adding  be- 
tween 400  and  500  members  to  the 
various  churches,  among  whom  he 
labored.  In  October,  1901,  he  ac- 
cepted his  present  pastorate  in  Car- 
terville, to  which  be  has  added  about 
130  since  he  assumed  its  control. 
The  church  has  prospered  in  all  re- 
spects from   the  start. 


A  large  Sunday  School,  under  the 
management  of  Mr.  Raymond  Jones, 
its  Superintendent,  evidences  the 
growing-  interest  of  the  young  peo- 
ple in  the  cause  of  religion  and  gives 
promise  of  the  permanence  and  pros- 
perity of  the  church  to  which  it  be- 
longs. The  Society  boasts  of  the 
finest  choir  in  Southern  Illinois.  It 
has  an  orchestra  of  eleven  pieces  and 
twenty-two  additional  singers.  Un- 
der the  able  and  scientific  leadership 
of  Dr.  J.  H.  Brooks  and  his  assist- 
ant. Will  Peebles,  finer  church  mu- 
sic has  never  been  produced  in  the 
state  than  the  people  of  Carterville 
are  favored  with  every  Sun'iay.  The 
following  comprises  a  complete  list 
of  the  orchestra  and  choir  as  at 
present   constituted; 

Dr.  J.  H.  Brooks,  leader  and  so- 
prano; Will  Peebles,  assistant  and 
1st  cornet:  Arthur  Baker,  1st  cor- 
net: Vern  Allen,  2nd  cornet:  Miss 
Lucy  Jones,  1st  violin:  David  Crow- 
der.  2nd  violin;  Sam  Hodges,  flute; 
Raymond  Jones,  flute;  Lloyd  Walk- 
er, trombone;  Lacy  Peyton,  trom- 
bone; George  Pressley,  bass  cello; 
Mi?;    Bessie    Jones,    organist. 

Choir — Mrs.  Will  Peebles,  Mrs. 
Maud  Clarida,  Mrs.  Ruth  Bracy,  Miss 
Minnie  Carr.  Miss  Nellie  Arnold, 
Miss  Ethel  Culp,  Miss  Lu  Jones,  Miss 
Lu  Baker,  Mrs.  Arthur  King,  Miss 
Myrtle  Smith,  Mrs.  I>.  L.  Jones,  Miss 
Stella  Culp,  sopranos;  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Brooks,  Miss  Zetta  Jones,  Miss  Lena 
Chapman,  altos:  L.  L.  Jones,  George 
Crowder,  Holly  Sizemore,  tenors: 
J.  E.  Harris,  P.  R.  Baker,  U.  L. 
Walker,   Grant   Peterson,   bass. 

The  following  is  the  Official  Board 
of  the  church:  Rev.  J.  H.  Allen,  pas- 
tor; Fred  C.  Guthrie,  clerk;  Ray- 
mond Jones,  S.  S.  Superintendent; 
Dr.  J.  H.  Brooks,  P.  R.  Baker,  J.  E. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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JUDGE  H.  F.  WHITAKER. 
Creal  Springs. 


MARY   ANN   WHITAKER. 
Creal  Springs. 


B.   H.   GREER,   P.   M. 
Creal  Springs. 


Harris,  Warren  Walker,  Willis  C. 
McNeill,  Hardy  Walker,  deacons:  W. 
L.  Walker,  Arthur  Baker,  J.  E.  Har- 
ris,  trustees. 


REV.   WM.   M.   MAXTON. 

Pastor  of    the   Presbyterian     Church 

at   Carterville. 


Rev.  Wm.  M.  Maxton  is  a  native  of 
Perthshire,  Scotland,  where  he  was 
born  December  21,  18GS.  His  pa- 
rents were  James  and  Catharine 
Maxton.  His  mother  is  still  living, 
but  his  father  died  in  Scotland  at 
an  advanced  age.  He  was  educated 
at  Monzie  and  Glasgow  and  came  to 
America  when  21  years  oil.  After 
taking  a  course  in  Moody's  Bible  In- 
stitution in  Chicago,  he  was  licensed 
as  a  minister  of  the  gospel  by  the 
Alton  Presbytery  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  of  U.  S.  A.,  in  September. 
1S93.  His  ordination  followed  in 
October  of  the  same  year,  and  he 
was  called  to  the  charge  of  the 
churches  of  Blair  and  Steelville  in 
Randolph     County.  After    closing 

his  work  there  he  spent  two  years 
with  the  church  in  Lyons,  Kansas, 
which  was  followed  by  a  two  years' 
pastorate  in  the  St.  Louis  Presby- 
tery. In  May,  190  0.  he  came  to  Car- 
terville and  took  charge  of  the 
church  at  that  place,  where  he  still 
labors. 

His  first  wife  was  Miss  Margaret 
Wilson,  of  Randolph  County,  who 
died  in  giving  birth  to  her  first  and 
only  child  in  January,  1S94.  She 
took  her  mother's  name,  and  is  now 
a  promising  daughter  of  nine  years. 
His  second  marriage  took  place  Aug- 
ust 12,  1903,  to  Miss  Helen  Burns 
Watson. 

The  church  which  Mr.  Maxton 
serves  has  a  membership  of  Hhi.  and 
the    building   a    seating   capacity      of 


300.  It  is  a  fine  structure  for  the 
size  of  the  city. 

The  following  is  the  official  roll  ot 
the   church: 

Wm.  M.  Maxton,  Pastor:  Hugh  M. 
Richard,  Jas.  Barr,  A.  K.  EUes  and 
riufus  Peterson,  Elders;  Fred  W. 
Richard,  James  Watson  and  Fred 
Nichol,  Deacons:  Ed.  Biles,  Hugh  M. 
Richard   and  A.    C.    Hope.   Trustees. 

The  officers  of  the  Sunday  School 
are:  A.  K,  Elles,  Supt.;  Grace  Hal- 
stead,  Asst.  Supt.:  Bessie  Barr,  Sec. 
and  Treas.  It  has  a  membership  of 
1.5  0. 

The  church  has  a  flourishing 
Christian  Endeavor  Society  of  45. 
Kiah   Hodges,   president:    Anna   Ban- 


dy, vice  president:  Hattie  Nichol, 
recording  secretary:  Grace  Halstead, 
corresponding  secretary:  Belle  Lock- 
ie,  treasurer:  Alice  Kennedy,  choris- 
ter. The  Junior  C.  E.  numbers  40. 
Its  officers  are:  Ella  Bandy,  Supt.; 
Mima  Banly,  Asst.  Supt.;  Ed  Elles, 
Treas.:  Clara  Nichol,  Sec.  Its 
choir  consists  of  the  following  per- 
sons: sopranos — Clara  Perry,  (also 
organist):  Roberta  Watson,  Grace 
Halstead,  Alice  Kennedy,  Anna  Ban- 
dy and  Ella  Bandy,  altos — Mrs.  W. 
M.  Maxton,  Lillian  Bandy,  Caudia 
Watson;  tenor — Kiah  Hodges;  bass 
— James  Watson.  Geo.  Lockie,  Fred 
Bevard.  Everett  Anderson  and  Fred 
W.    Richard. 


J'^ 


MR.   AND   MRS.   CHAS.    F.  STARRICK.  Carterville,  111. 
Retired  Farmer   and    Blind. 


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SOUVENIR  ()[■'   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


MRS.   E.   A.   CHADWELL, 
Corinth,   Illinois. 


REV.    JOSEPH    DEROSETT, 

Pastor    of    the    Creal    Springs    M.    E. 

Church. 


J.    L.    ROBERTS, 
Corinth,   Illinois. 


LUTHER   E.   ROBERTSON, 

Attorney  at  Law.    Editor  and  Propri 

etor  of  the  Carterville  Herald. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  at  Frankfort,  Franklin  County, 
Illinois,  March  14th,  1866.  He  re- 
ceived a  common  school  education 
and  taught  for  ten  years  before  tak- 
ing up  the  study  of  law.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  18  96,  and  the 
following  year,  June  30,  1897.  I'lar- 
ried  Miss  Lucy  E.  Martin,  a  native  of 
Jackson  County. 

He  is  democratic  in  politics  and 
began  the  publication  of  the  Carter- 
ville HeraLl  in  the  interest  of  his 
party  August  2  4th,  189  9.  He  was 
elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  on  that 
ticket  in  November,  1901,  nnd  his 
commission    still    obtains. 

He  has  two  children,  Marian  f. nd 
Alarie. 


J.    L.   GALLIMORE, 
Attorney   at   Law. 

J.  L.  Gallimore  was  born  in  Poll; 
County,  Illinois,  October  11,  1867. 
After  a  thorough  training  at  (he 
High  School  of  Golconda,  he  taught 
for  five  years,  and  then  took  up  the 
study  of  law,  in  the  tall  of  1888.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  February  24, 
1892.  at  Mt.  Vernon,  and  began  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Gol- 
conda. After  one  year's  ptactice 
there  he  came  to  Carterville,  March 
1st,  1893,  and  the  follov.in:?  April 
was  appointed  City  Attorney  to  fill  a 
vacancy  of  one  year.  At  ihe  e.\p;ra- 
tion  of  his  term  of  office  he  was  elect- 
ed on  the  Democratic  ticket  for  a 
full  term  of  two  years.  He  was  out 
for  two  years,  but  re-elected  in 
1898,  and  has  held  the  same  office 
ever  since. 


He  was  married  February  2  4, 
189.5,  to  Miss  Osee  Canaday,  a  native 
of  Vermillion  County,  by  whom  he 
has  had  three  children,  Hal  G.,  Zula 
and  J.  Otis. 


J.  A.   SEIDLA. 
Hoisting   Engineer    Culp   Coal     Mine. 

J.  A.  Seidla  was  born  at  Lafayette, 
Tippecanoe  County,  Indiana,  April 
11,  1853.  His  father,  John  Adam 
Seidla,  was  a  native  of  Wittunburg, 
Germany,  where  he  was  born  in 
1822  and  emigrated  to  America  in 
183  3.  He  was  a  successful  stock 
raiser  and  dealer,  and  is  still  living 
on   the   old   place   in   Tippecanoe   Co. 


He  tried  to  raise  his  son  to  his  own 
occupation,  but  kept  him  on  the 
farm  only  until  he  was  fifteen,  when 
he  gave  it  up  as  a  bad  job  and  let 
him  follow  his  own  inclination  to 
work    with    tools   and    machinery. 

He  built  and  ran  several  saw  mills 
in  Southern  Illinois  for  more  than  20 
years.  With  the  exception  of  two 
years  in  Southeast  Missouri,  where 
he  erected  and  run  a  saw-mill  for 
John  Culp  in  the  heavy  timber  of  the 
Mississippi  bottom,  his  work  has 
been  done  in  Southern  Illinois.  Hav- 
ing had  the  benefit  of  only  a  com- 
mon school  education,  he  took  a 
course  as  Hoisting  Engineer  in  the 
Scranton     International    Correspond- 


OZARK    PARK,    CREAL  SPRINGS. 
(C.  E.  Jenkins).      "I  think  I'll   rest   a  while,   right  here." 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON    COUNT\',   ILLLNOIS. 


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CREAL  SPRINGS    COLLEGE,    Mrs.     G.     B.     Murrat,    PrincipaL 


ence  School  in  13iU,  and  received 
his  certificate  from  the  examiners  at 
Springfield.  He  immediately  took 
charge  of  the  engine  at  the  Gulp 
mine,  which  he  still   runs. 


FRANK  SIZEMORE, 
Musician. 

This  well-known  musician,  the  or- 
ganizer and  leader  of  the  concert 
band  bearing  his  name,  is  a  Carter- 
ville  boy  from  his  birth.  He  was 
born  on  a  farm  contiguous  to  the 
corporation  January  17,  1S69,  three 
years  and  a  month  before  the  village 
was  surveyed  in  February,  IS 72. 
His  rearing,  fortunately  for  his 
physique,  was  on  the  farm,  and  his 
education  at  the  common  school.  He 
took  up  the  study  of  music  when  but 
19  years  old,  and  has  studied  har- 
mony and  composition  under  such 
masters  as  Dr.  Palmer,  of  Chicago: 
A.  J,  Goodrich,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
Charles  T.  Howe,  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 
He  is  a  composer  of  no  mean  talent, 
and  is  the  author  of  several  pieces  of 
high  merit. 

March  29,  1S94,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Hayes. 
They  have  no  children.  He  is  a  mu- 
sician, not  a  politician,  and  by  trade 
a  barber. 


CHARLES   CRAIG.   J.    P. 
Real  Estate  and  Insurance. 


Charles  Craig,  .T.  P.,  was  born 
four  miles  south  of  Carterville  July, 
1S66.  He  was  reared  on  a  farm  and 
is  indebted  to  our  incomparable  com- 


mon school  system  for  his  education. 
He  came  to  Carterville  in  November, 
1893,  and  spent  two  years  in  the 
grocery  and  restaurant  business,  but 
in  1S9S  took  up  real  estate  and  in- 
surance, in  which  he  is  still  engaged. 

In  1897  he  was  elected  constable 
and  served  a  full  term  of  four  years. 
He  was  then  elected  to  the  common 
council,  and  is  still  alderman.  He 
was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace  In 
1901,  and  is  still  discharging  the  du- 
ties of  that  office.  He  is  a  republi- 
can  in   politics. 

He  has  been  married  twice.  His 
first  wife  was  Laura  E.  Cole,  to 
whom  he  was  united  May  16,  ISSG, 
anl  by  whom  he  has  had  one  child, 
Ollie  Ethel.  June  6,  1900,  he  mar- 
ried Miss  Leona  Kisner,  of  Vienna, 
by  whom  he  has  one  child.  Opal. 


POST    OFFICE    AT    CARTERVILLE. 


This  office  was  first  established  in 
1871,  with  George  McNeill  as  the 
first  Postmaster,  He  was  succeeded 
by  John  Bandy,  and  these  in  turn  by 
the  following  incumbents,  in  the  or- 
der named:  Curtis  Scott.  B.  F.  Tran- 
barger.  John  Herrin,  R.  H.  H.  Hamp- 
ton,  Albert   K.   Elles.   G.  W.   Duncan, 

C.  E.  Owen,  Dr.  W.  H.  Perry,  Mrs.  E. 
N.  Sprague,  Miss  Maggie  Thompson, 

D.  P.  McFadden,  H.  W.  Cann,  and 
last  of  all  by  the  present  incumbent, 
J.   A.  Lauder. 

It  was  made  a  Presidential  office 
July  1.  1S9S.  with  the  salary  placed 
at  $1,000  a  year.  Since  then  there 
have  been  five  advances  of  $100 
each    year,    till    the   office   commands 


$15iiO_  beginning  July  1,  19ii5.  It 
was  the  first  office  in  the  County  to 
secure  Rural  Free  Delivery,  and  now 
has  three  routes  with  the  following 
carriers:  Richard  Stover,  Route  1: 
John  W.  Hestand,  Route  2:  Roscoe 
North,  Route  3.  The  present  office 
force,  besides  the  Postmaster,  is 
Miss  Pearl  Robinson,  Assistant  Post- 
master:   Anna   McCutcheon,   Clerk. 

The  office  is  quite  a  distributing 
center  for  the  surrounding  towns, 
handling  the  Blairsville,  North  Bend 
and  Clifford  mails,  about  half  of 
Dewmain  and  Fordville  and  more 
than  a  fourth  of  Herrin  in  transit. 
The  total  receipts  of  the  office  the 
last  year,  from  April  to  April,  was 
$3,0.56.14.  It  handled  4,S38  domes- 
tic and  2fK'  foreign  money  orders. 


J.   A.    LAUDER,   Postmaster. 


Was  born  in  Pittston,  Pa..  August 
9,  1869,  and  came  when  a  child  with 
his  parents  to  Carterville.  The 
country  was  at  that  time  mostly  a 
wilderness,  and  the  family  had  all 
the  hardships  and  privations  of 
pioneer  life.  The  elder  Lauder, 
Alexander  Lauder,  had  experience  in 
mining  in  Pittston,  in  the  California 
gold  fields,  in  Rasclare  lead  mines, 
and  naturally  took  to  coal  mining, 
when  he  went  to  Murphysboro  in 
1866.  He  sunk  the  first  coal  shaft 
in  this  field  and  followed  the  busi- 
ness for  some  years. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
became  a  man  he,  too,  went  to  min- 
ing, where  he  worked  till  about  20 
years   old.        After    a    course    in    the 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


BANK   OF   JOHNSON   CITY   AT  JOHNSON   CITY,   ILLINOIS. 
Mr.  M.  Oznient,  Cashier,    in    the    Window. 


Brown's  Business  College  al  Peoria, 
he  clerked  for  some  time  and  fol- 
lowed various  other  occupations  un- 
til he  was  appointed  Postmaster, 
June  1,  1S9S.  He  was  a  strong  Re- 
publican and  active  and  efficient  in 
practical  politics,  and  secured  his  ap- 
pointment without  much  opposition. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  County  Cen- 
tral Committee  and  also  of  the  Con- 
gressional Committee  for  this  Coun- 
ty. He  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Christian  Church  since  ISSS 
and  the  leader  of  the  choir.  His  mu- 
sical talent  has  made  him  of  much 
use  to  his  neighbors  and  brought 
him  into  constant  request,  both  in 
the  city  and  county,  in  leading  the 
music  at  funerals  and  other  gather- 
ings. 

As  a  breeder  of  Single  Comb  Black 
Minorcas,  he  has  won  a  reputation 
over  the  whole  country.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Black  Minorca  Poul- 
try Club  of  America,  and  his  fowls 
and  eggs  are  sent  to  all  parts  of  the 
United  States.  His  birds  invariably 
win  the  blue  ribbons  wherever  ex- 
hibited, rarely  scoring  less  than 
93  1-2   to   95   points. 

His  marriage  took  place  Septem- 
ber 14,  1893  to  Lena  Zimmerman,  of 
South  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Five  children 
were  the  fruits  of  this  union:  Neva, 
Helen,  Ruth,  Don  C.  and  Junia.  He 
Is  a  member  of  Williamson  Lodge, 
No.  S02,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  also 
a  Modern  Woodman. 


in  18.57,  locating  at  Pittslon,  Pa.,  re- 
maining there  a  short  time  and  then 
removed  to  the  gold  fields  of  Cali- 
fornia, Nevada  and  Washington,  be- 
ing engaged  in  the  various  vocations 
in  and  around  the  gold  mines  for 
about  seven  years,  returning  to 
Pennsylvania,  from  whence  he  went 
to  Rosiclare,  111.,  working  in  the 
lead   mines. 

He  went  to  Murphysboro.  111.,  in 
180(j.  and  had  charge  of  the  sinking 
and  managing  of  some  of  the  first 
coal  mines  in  that  locality.  While 
there  he  arranged  to  meet  his  future 
wife,  Elizabeth  Jones,  of  Pittston, 
Pa.,  in  Chicago,  111.,  she  coming 
from  her  home  in  Pennsylvania, 
when  they  were  married  in  October, 
1867.      To   this   marriage   were   born 


six  children,  James.  .Minnie,  Dick, 
Maggie,  Frank  and  Alexander,  Jr., 
all  of  whom  are  living  except  Alex- 
ander, Jr. 

Mr.  Lauder  was  the  eldest  of 
seven  brothers  and  one  sister,  Rob- 
ert, James,  Peter,  Thomas,  John, 
Samuel  and  Agnes.  All  are  dead  ex- 
cept  Peter,   Thomas   and   John. 

He  located  in  Carterville,  Illinois, 
in  1872,  assuming  charge  of  the 
mines  of  the  Carbondale  Coal  and 
Coke   Company. 

He  became  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  Order  at  Herrin's  Prai- 
rie Lodge,  No.  G93,  in  1873;  was 
also  a  charter  member  of  Williamson 
Lodge  No.  802  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  at 
Carterville,  111.,  and  a  member  of 
the  United  Mine  Workers  of  Amer- 
ica, Local  No.  1146. 

He  was  elected  one  of  the  Village 
trustees  of  the  Village  of  Carterville 
under  its  first  organization  in  1873; 
elected  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  in  1874;  re-elected  to  the 
same  office  in  1875  and  1876;  in 
1877  was  elected  Treasurer  of  the 
Village;  in  187  8  he  was  asked  by  a 
number  of  his  friends  to  once  more 
serve  the  people  of  our  little  village, 
but  his  answer  was  no,  for  the  rea- 
son that  so  much  of  his  time  was 
taken  up  by  his  duties  at  the  mines, 
and  also  feeling  that  others  should 
take  the  responsibility  of  the  man- 
agement of  the  village  now,  the 
third   largest   city   in  Williamson  Co. 

At  the  time  Mr.  Lauder  took 
charge  of  the  Carterville  Coal  and 
Coke  Go's,  property  it  was  the  only 
shipping  mine  in  Williamson  County. 
At  this  time  the  county  has  some- 
thing over  forty  coal  openings.  Mr. 
Lauder  has  seen  the  great  coal  in- 
dustry of  Williamson  County  grow 
from  the  little  slope,  situated  on  the 


ALEXANDER    LAUDER,    Deceased. 


Alexander  Lauder,  son  of  Thos. 
and  Agnes  Lauder,  was  born  in  Kirk- 
cudbrightshire, Scotland,  July  3, 
1834,  died  October  9,  1904,  at  12 
o'clock,  noon.  His  death  was  cause! 
by  apoplexy,  being  ill  only  a  very 
brief  time. 

Mr.    Lauder   came   to   this   country 


C'AitTKK\ILI>K  SCHOOL  BUILDING,    Carterville,    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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DR.  J.  H.    BROOKS, 
Mayor  of  Carterville.   Elected  in   1905. 


Laban  Carter  estate,  about  one-half 
mile  east  of  Division  street,  to  one 
of  the  most  noted  coal  fields  of 
America. 

The  funeral  services  were  held 
Tuesday,  October  11,  at  2  p.  m., 
from  the  family  residence,  conducted 
by  Rev.  F.  L.  Davis,  pastor  of  the 
Christian  Church,  assisted  by  Rev. 
W.  W.  Weedon  and  Rev.  J.  J.  Harris, 
both  of  Marion.  Interment  in  the 
Oakwood  cemetery  by  the  Free  Ma- 
sons  and   Miners  Union   Local. 


young  man  the  necessary  foundation 
for  the  education  he  so  greatly  de- 
sired. But  his  poverty  and  the 
delicacy  of  his  father's  health  were 
a  serious  hanuicap  during  all  of  his 
early  life,  and  consequently  his  edu- 
cation was  secured  only  at  intervals 
of  severe  toil  summers  and  working 
nights  and  Saturdays  in  the  winter 
until  he  passed  the  County  Superin- 
tendent's examination  and  secured 
the  coveted   certificate.     He  then  se- 


cured the  Sitter  School,  near  Sara- 
toga, 111.,  where  he  made  a  record 
unsurpassed  by  any.  It  had  the 
reputation  of  being  a  hard  school  to 
manage,  but  he  taught  it  for  two 
years  successfully.  Three  of  his  pu- 
pils received  certificates  at  the  end 
of  his  two  years'  labor  and  went  to 
teaching.  On  closing  his  school 
there  he  went  to  Mississippi  and 
taught  one  term  in  that  state  and 
then  returnel  to  Illinois. 

After  an  incomplete  course  at  the 
State  Normal  at  Carbondale,  he 
chose  medicine  as  a  profession,  and 
took  a  course  in  the  University  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  graduating  in 
1891.  He  then  returned  to  Union 
County  and  began  to  practice,  but 
the  next  year  went  to  Blairsville, 
where  he  remained  nineteen  months. 
He  then  stuck  out  his  shingle  in  Car- 
terville, where  he  has  since  re- 
mained. This  was  in  1S94,  and  in 
1899  he  supplemented  his  medical 
education  by  a  post  graduate  course 
at  Chicago.  The  Doctor  was  one  of 
the  first  to  recognize  the  value  of 
the  X-Ray  in  medicine,  and  is  one  of 
the  few  experts  in  that  line.  His 
laboratory  is  fully  equipped  with  all 
up-to-date  machines  for  full  electric 
and  X-Ray  treatment,  in  which  he 
is    eminently    successful. 

The  Doctor  is  normally  a  Demo- 
crat, but  at  the  last  election  in  Car- 
terville he  enthusiastically  support- 
ed the  reform  movement,  and  was 
elected  Mayor  of  the  city  on  the 
Prohibition    ticket. 

His  wife  was  Alice  Reynolds,  who 
was  born  in  Carterville  in  1S72. 
They  were  married  August  1,  1895, 
and  have  one  child.  Colleen  Brooks. 
They  are  both  members  of  the  1st 
Baptist  Church.  He  is  a  K.  of  P. 
and   Modern   Woodman. 


J.   H.   BROOKS,   M.   D. 
Mayor  of  Carterville. 

Dr.  Brooks  is  a  vivid  example  of 
what  ambition,  pluck  and  hard  work 
will  do  for  a  young  American  boy  of 
good  principles  and  average  intelli- 
gence. His  youth  was  spent  on  a 
farm  in  the  states  of  Mississippi  and 
Illinois,  where  the  main  burden  of 
the  family's  support  fell  on  his 
shoulders,  on  account  of  an  invalid 
father.  His  father,  M.  C.  Brooks, 
was  a  native  of  Cobden,  Union  Co., 
111.,  where  the  Dr.  was  also  born, 
April  4,  1818.  His  mother  was 
Elizabeth  Neel,  a  native  of  Missis- 
sippi, and  very  much  attached  to  the 
South.  After  their  marriage  her  in- 
fluence took  her  back  to  Mississippi, 
and  her  husband  and  young  son  with 
her,  where  she  died  in  1874.  The 
family  then  returned  to  Cobden.  111., 
where  the  father  still  lives. 

The  common  school  system,  which 
has  done  so  much  for  the  nation. 
again  showed  its  value  in  giving    the 


CARTERVILLE     DISTRICT    COAL  MINE  NEAR  WHITE  ASH,  ILL. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


NORTH  SIDE  SCHOOT>.    Heriin,   Illinoi: 


CHARLES  M.   CASH,  Insurance. 


Mr.  Cash,  who,  after  various  vicis- 
situdes, has  settled  down  to  the  suc- 
cessful management  of  the  Southern 
Illinois  district  of  the  Molern 
American,  one  of  the  most  popular 
liberal  and  safe  of  the  Fraternal  Or- 
ders, though  born  in  Hardin  County. 
Kentucky,  of  Kentucky  heritage, 
prides  himself  on  being  a  thorough- 
going Williamson  County  man,  as  he 
came  to  Marion  with  his  parents  in 
1865,  when  but  16  years  old,  and 
has  been  a  resident  of  the  County 
ever  since.  He  was  born  April  7. 
184  9.  of  Jeremiah  Cash  and  Amanda 
Melvina  Williams.  His  mother  died 
in  18  84  at  the  age  of  62,  and  his 
father  is  still  living  in  Marion  at  the 
age  of  81. 

He  was  married  October  27,  187  2. 
when  2  4  years  old,  to  Miss  Mattie 
Walker,  who  died  March  8,  1890,  af- 
ter giving  birth  to  eight  children, 
seven  of  whom  are  living.  He  fol- 
lowed his  father's  occupation  of 
farming  in  the  vicinity  of  Marion  un- 
til 1881,  when  he  moved  his  family 
to  Carterville,  where  he  has  since  re- 
sided. Two  years  afterwards  he 
went  into  the  grocery  business  and 
later  drifted  into  general  merchan- 
dise. After  five  years'  experience  in 
that  line  he  sold  out  and  began 
clerking  for  Zimmerman  Brothers  in 
Carterville.  He  remained  with 
them  eleven  years,  and  then  built 
the  Park  Hotel,  which  he  sold  to  J. 
W.  Wheatly,  after  running  it  for  six 
years.  Wheatly  sold  to  Roy  E.  Cash. 
the  only  remaining  son  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  in  the  winter  of 
1904   and   1905. 

In  April  of  last  year,  1904,  Mr. 
Cash  became  interested  in  Insurance, 
and  took  the  general  agency  for 
Southern     Illinois     of     the     Modern 


American,  with  the  Supreme  Lodge 
at  Effingham.  This  is  under  the 
general  management  of  Hon.  George 
M.  LeCrone,  and  seems  to  be  rapidly 
forging  to  the  very  front  in  its  line. 
For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Cash  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Sarah  Donihoo.  in  189  4. 
Two  years  later  she  died,  and  in 
August.  189S.  he  took  Mrs.  Lizzie 
Powell,  a  widow  with  five  grown 
children,  all  of  whom,  but  two,  are 
settled  in  the  County.  Their  names 
are  in  the  order  of  their  ages.  Ran- 
som Powell,  conductor  on  the  Illinois 
Central  Ry.,  residing  at  Golconda; 
Libble,  the  wife  of  Noah  Payne,  a 
Drygoods  merchant  at  Marion;  Kate, 
the  wife  of  Oscar  Peyton,  of  Carter- 
ville;   Sherman    Powell,   a   newspaper 


and  magazine  cartoonist  in  Califor- 
nia, and  Frank,  the  youngest,  who  is 
1  lerking  for  D.  B.  Bracy,  a  Drygoods 
merchant    of    Marion.  Mr.    Cash'a 

children  are  Cora,  the  wife  of  Rev. 
It.  D.  McKinnis,  a  Baptist  preacher 
ill  Southeast  Missouri;  Marian,  wife 
of  W.  B.  Keith,  a  farmer  of  Du- 
Quoin;  R.  E.  Cash,  before  men- 
tioned, living  at  Carterville  and  en- 
gaged in  railroad  contracting;  Evan- 
geline, the  wife  of  George  H.  North, 
a  lum1)er  merchant  at  Carterville; 
Ruth,  wife  of  Frank  Bracy,  a  hard- 
ware dealer  in  Carterville;  Zelda,  the 
wife  of  Anthony  DuPrett,  a  tailor  at 
Carterville,  and  Zonna,  the  young- 
est, who  is  single  and  lives  with  her 
parents  in  Carterville.  One  son  died 
in  infancy.  Mr.  Cash  and  his  wife 
are  both  members  of  the  Missionary 
Baptist  Church,  and  politically  he  is 
a   Democrat. 


WESLEY    STAFFORD. 


Wesley  Stafford,  of  Carterville.  is 
the  hustling  proprietor  of  The  Staf- 
ford Job  Printery.  He  was  born 
June  15,  1878,  at  Stone  Fort,  Saline 
County,  111.  His  father,  Rufus  R. 
Stafford,  was  born  in  North  Carolina, 
and  his  mother.  Eliza  J.,  was  born 
in  Kentucky.  After  graduating  from 
High  School.  Mr.  Stafford  learned 
the  printer's  trade  of  Prof.  James  W. 
Turner,  and  in  1900  opened  his  pres- 
ent office,  doing  general  job  work. 
With  the  growth  of  the  community, 
it  is  Mr.  Stafford's  ambition  to  start 
a  daily  paper. 

Mr.  Stafford  belongs  to  the  M.  E. 
Church,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Red 
Men.  Modern  American,  Knights  of 
Honor  and  Knights  and  Ladies  of 
Security. 


GROUP   OF    SCHOOL    CHILDREN   AND   G.   A.    R.   VETERANS 
Herrin,  Illinois,  at  G.  A.  R.  Reunion. In   front   of  the  North  Side  School, 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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state  about  1859.  Her  father  was  a 
.lustice  of  the  Peace  and  also  a 
Judge  in  Jefferson  County,  and  is 
now  living  on  a  farm  at  Masters, 
Franklin    County. 

February  in,  1SS2,  Mrs.  Barth 
was  married  to  August  Barth,  of  Jer- 
seyville.  111.,  who  was  in  business  at 
Alton,  later  bought  and  moved  to  a 
farm  four  miles  south  of  Carterville. 
In  July,  1901,  Mr.  Barth  died  at  the 
age  of  G8,  Mrs.  Barth  remaining  on 
the  farm  until  her  home  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire  in  March,  1903.  She 
then  came  to  Carterville,  leasing  the 
Thompson  House  and  conducting  a 
first-class  hotel.  Her  untiring  efforts 
to  please  the  patrons  is  fast  being  re- 
warded. 

JOE   E.    KELLEY. 


HEREIN   STATE- SAVINGS   BANK. 
Thomas  Stotlar,  President,    Philip    N.    Lewis,    Cashier. 


JOHN   MURPHY, 
Livery  and  Sale  Stables. 


Mr.  Murphy,  as  his  name  indi- 
cates, has  the  honest  and  enthusi- 
astic blood  of  old  Ireland  flowing  in 
his  veins.  His  father  was  Beverly 
Murphy,  a  native  of  Ireland,  and  his 
mother  Mary  Campbell.  He  was 
reared  on  a  farm  and  accustomed  at 
an  early  age  to  the  use  and  care  of 
horses  and  mules.  He  was  born 
near  Anna,  Union  County,  Illinois, 
September  25,  1S66,  and  came  to 
Carterville  in  1S82.  For  some  years 
he  followed  teaming  and  farming  in 
about  equal  proportions  until  1S94, 
when  he  began  feeding  mules  for  the 
Carterville  Coal  Co..  which  he  con- 
tinued to  do  until  June   15,   1903. 

In  the  meantime,  in  1900,  he  had 
invested  his  earnings  in  the  livery 
business,  and  had  taken  R.  E.  Cash 
as  a  partner  to  look  after  It.  After 
three  years  they  sold  out  the  busi- 
ness to  W.  B.  Miller,  of  Murphys- 
boro,  and  a  year  later,  January  IS. 
1904,  Murphy  bought  back  a  half  in- 
terest,  which   he  still  controls. 

He  married  Miss  Mary  McNeill,  by 
whom  he  has  had  two  children,  only 
one  of  which  is  now  living,  Samuel 
B.  Murphy.  He  is  a  democrat  and  a 
K.  of  P.  Last  April  he  took  a  hand 
in  politics  and  was  elected  Alderman 
of  the  2nd  ward. 


He  was  luairied  July  14,  1887,  to 
Miss  S.  A.  Newton,  by  whom  he  has 
had  seven  chillren,  but  only  one  is 
living,  Herman,  15  years  old.  He  is 
a  Democrat  in  politics,  has  served  as 
constable  four  years  and  street  com- 
missioner five  years.  He  is  an  Odd 
Fellow. 


MRS.    MARY    BARTH. 


Mrs.  Mary  Barth,  proprietor  of 
the  Thompson  House  at  Carterville, 
was  born  February  15,  1859,  at. 
Belleville.  111.  Her  father.  John 
Murray,  was  a  native  of  Tennessee, 
also  her  mother,  Jane  Harlan  Mur- 
rav.      They  came  to  this  part  of  the 


.Mr.  Joe  E.  Kelley,  the  leading 
druggist  and  dealer  in  wall  paper, 
paints,  oils,  glass,  etc.,  was  bjin  at 
Earlington,  Kentucky,  of  Irish  pa- 
rents, November  1,  1871.  His  fath- 
er. Felix  Kelley,  and  mother.  Bridget 
(Conway)  Kelley,  being  born  in  Ire- 
land. In  1876  they  settled  in  South- 
ern Illinois.  Since  he  has  been  tall 
enough  to  see  over  the  counter  Mr. 
Joe  E.  Kelley  has  been  a  fixture  in 
his  present  location,  while  attending 
school  and  since  graduating  from  the 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy, 
March  25,  1892,  and  for  the  past  two 
years   as   proprietor. 

Mr.  Kelley  was  married  to  Miss 
Grace  Hill,  of  Carterville,  February 
10,  1897,  by  which  union  two  chil- 
dren were  born,  a  son.  Cay.  and  a 
daughter,   Kate. 

Mr.  Kelley  belongs  to  the  Mp.sons, 
Knights  of  Pythias.  Independent  Or- 
der of  Odd  Fellows  and  Red  Men. 
He  has  filled  all  of  the  chairs  in  Lib- 


S.   P.  WATSON, 
Street  Commissioner. 

This  gentleman  is  a  native  of 
Carterville  and  has  always  lived 
here.  He  first  saw  the  light  July 
19,  1862,  was  educated  at  our  public 
schools,  found  employment  here  and 
has  always  been  identified  with  its 
interests. 


MURPHY   AND   MILLER  LIVERY,   CARTERVILLE,   ILL. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLI A.MSO.\   COUNTY.  ILLLVOIS 


EPHRAIM    HERRIN, 

Vice   President   First  National   Bank, 

Herrin,   Illinois. 

erty  Lodge  No.  2  52,  K.  of  P.,  and 
has  been  representative  to  tlie  Grand 
Lodge,  and  is  also  First  Sachen  of 
Ozark  Tribe  No.  15  4  of  Red  Men  and 
representative  to  the  Grand   Lodge. 

Mr.  Kelley  has  won  his  way  from 
early  boyhood,  and  is  held  in  high 
esteem  by  his  fellow  townspeople,  as 
a  bright,  upright  and  energetic 
young  business  man. 


G.    D.    HALL,    Farmer, 


Is  one  of  the  very  few  remaining 
native-born  Yankees  living  in  South- 
ern Illinois.  Although  six  years  be- 
yond his  allotted  three-score  years 
and  ten,  he  is  straight  and  rugged  in 
form  and  quick  in  action,  bright  of 
eye  and  steady  and  emphatic  of 
voice,  showing  in  every  move  and 
word  and  act  a  vitality  bidding  fair 
to  carry  him  on  well  into  the  twen- 
tieth century.  He  is  proud  to  claim 
old  Stowe.  Vermont,  as  his  native 
place,  where  he  was  born  on  Inde- 
pendence Day,  1S2S.  He  has  carried 
an  American  silver  half  dollar  in  his 
pocket  for  many  years  which  was 
coined  on  his  birthday.  His  parents 
were  David  H.  Hall  and  Sophia  Stod- 
dard, both  of  whom  were  Vermont 
people.  His  wife,  too,  was  a  native 
of   the   same   state. 

When  he  was  but  five  years  old  his 
parents  moved  to  Woodstock,  Cham- 
paign County,  Ohio,  where  the  fath- 
er died  at  the  age  of  S4  and  the 
mother  at  64.  He  was  reared  to  the 
occupation  of  boot  and  shoe-maker 
by  his  father,  who  set  him  at  work 
at  the  business  at  the  age  of  four- 
teen. Like  all  children  of  a  new 
country,  he  had  to  pick  up  his  edu- 
cation in  the  winter  while  he  worked 
during    the    summer. 

In  the  Spring  of  1S59,  March  27th, 
he  was    united  in  marriage  to    Miss 


D.   N.   WILKERSON, 
Ex-Mayor  of   Herrin,   111. 


Mary  Sprague,  a  relative  of  Senator 
Sprague  of  Rhode  Island.  The 
November  following  his  marriage, 
November  1,  1S59,  he  and  his  wife 
came  to  Carbondale,  111.,  with  a 
wagon  and  rented  a  home  for  a 
couple  of  years,  when  they  bought 
their  present  home,  where  they  have 
since  resided.  The  names  of  their 
children  in  the  order  of  their  ages 
are:  Mrs.  Elsie  Scott,  East  Cam- 
bridge, Vt.:  Otis  Hall,  Mrs.  Lucy 
Freeman,  Philip  Hall  and  George 
Hall,  Carterville.  Otis  and  Philip 
are  partners  in  the  lumber  business, 
and  George  is  a  civil  engineer. 

His  father  was  an  old  line  Whig, 
and  Mr.  Hall  has  always  voted  the 
Republican   ticket. 


D.   K.    HARRISON, 

President    of     First    National     Bank, 

Herrin,   Illinois. 


CARTERVILLE    STATE    AND    SAV- 
INGS   BANK. 


Carterville  State  and  Savings 
Bank,  successors  to  the  Bank  of 
Carterville,  has  a  capital  stock  of 
$50,000.00.  It  commenced  business 
April   13,    1904. 

The  officers  are:  S.  H.  Bundy, 
president:  J.  B.  Samuel,  vice  presi- 
dent ;    M.  W.  Sizemore,  cashier. 

The  directors  are:  W.  S.  Wilson, 
Ed.  A.  Elles,  J.  B.  Samuel,  H.  F.  Ar- 
nold, P.  H.  Carroll,  S.  H.  Bundy,  W. 
C.  McNeill,  T.  .1.  Moak,  F.  H.  Koen- 
necke. 

A  report  of  the  condition  of  the 
Bank,    before   the   commencement   of 


THE    CULP    COAL    I^IIXE,    C  AKTEinM  I.I.H.    II.I.IXiM.- 


SOU\EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


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dren.     She  is  a  member  of  the  United 
Brethern    Church. 


THE   WHITE  ASH   OR   CHICAGO    AND    IIARIOX    COAL    MIXE. 


business    on    the    loth    day    of 
1904,  is  as  follows; 

Resources. 
Loans  and   Discounts    ...$1.S2. 

Overdrafts 

Other  bonds  and  securi- 
ties, including  pre- 
miums          11, 

Banking  House 3, 

Furniture  and  Fixtures..  1, 
Due  from  Nation'l  Banks  16, 
Due  from  State  Bankers  35, 
Checks,  other  cash  items 
Cash  on  hand,  currency.  9. 
Cash  on  hand,  gold  coin.  4, 
Cash  on  hand,  silver  coin  1, 
Cash  on  hd,  nickels,  cts. 


7G1.9;! 
354.36 


511.63 
500.00 
487.00 
055.24 
762.16 
550.09 
S  5  0 . 0  n 
930.011 
S14.00 
19.45 


Total $26S,595.S6 

Liabilities. 

Capital   stock   paid   in...$    50, 000. On 

Undivided  profits,  less  ex- 
penses and  taxes  pd.        1,293.4s 

Time       deposits,      certifi- 
cates           66,400.90 

Demand     deposits,     indi- 
vidual     147.51 1.9S 

Demand    deposits,  certifi- 
cates            3,389.50 

Total $268,595.86 


one  mile  east  of  his  present  home. 
His  father,  Philip  J.  Russell,  was  a 
native  of  Tennessee,  came  to  Wil- 
liamson County  in  ISIN.  served  dur- 
ing the  Blackhawk  War,  and  died 
November    21,    1877.  His    mother 

was  Rebecca  Tyner,  who  died  Janu- 
ary 2  5,  1883.  Mr.  Russell  was 
reared  on  the  farm  and  received  a 
farmer  boy"s  education.  He  was  on 
the  police  force  and  served  as  guard 
during  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago 
in  18  93.  He  has  never  been  con- 
nected with  a  church  nor  an  office- 
holder, but  has  always  voted  the  Re- 
publican  ticket. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Eva  V.  Martin, 
to  whom  he  was  united  in  marriage 
Mav    26.    1S95.      They   have    no   chil- 


W.  W.  SXYDER.  Butcher. 


W.  W.  Snyder,  of  Carterville,  was 
born  March  1,  185  9,  in  Franklin  Co. 
His  father,  Isaac  Martin  Snyder  was 
also  born  in  Franklin  Co.,  and  his 
mother,  Susan  Alzada  Russell  Sny- 
der.  was  born  in  W'illiamson  County. 
Therefore,  Mr.  Snyder  has  lived  all 
of  his  life  in  this   part  of  the  state. 

On  December  8,  1881,  Mr.  Snyder 
was  married  to  Miss  Emma  Stocks,  of 
Carterville,  by  which  union  six  chil- 
dren were  born:  Pearl,  now  married; 
Ray,  Roxy,  Velma,  W.  W.,  Jr.,  and 
H.  F.  Mr.  Snyder  was  mayor  of  Car- 
terville 1S96-1S9S,  held  the  office  of 
city  treasurer  two  years,  alderman 
six  years  and  run  for  the  office  of 
sheriff  of  Williamson  County,  but 
was  defeated  by  Joab  Gray,  now  Ex- 
Sheriit.  Since  leaving  school  Mr. 
Snyder  has  been  occupied  in  farming, 
livery,  stock  and  meat  market  busi- 
ness. He  is  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sons, Odd  Fellows  and  Knights  of 
Pythias. 


JOHN   L.   TYXER. 


Born  near  old  Blairsville,  in  Wil- 
liamson County,  January  23,  1836. 
His  father,  John  Tyner,  died  when 
he  was  a  child,  and  his  mother,  who 
was  Sarah  Arnett,  married  for  a 
second  husband  Charles  C.  Glover, 
by  whom  he  was  reared.  He  was 
the  youngest  of  eight  children,  and 
was  reared  by  his  step-father  to  farm 
life.  The  family  lived  at  this  time 
near  DuQuoin,  in  Perry  County. 

In  February,  1862,  he  entered  the 
service  and  enlisted  in  the  12th  Illi- 
nois   Cavalry     from    Chicago,     under 


CARTERVILLE  BRICK  CO. 


This  Brick  plant  is  composed  of 
the  following  company:  S.  H.  Bundy, 
F.  W.  Richard  and  C.  E.  Owen.  Mr. 
Herbert  Griggs  is  the  superintendent 
and  manager.  The  company  use  the 
Frazee  machine  and  have  a  capacity 
of  25.000  brick  daily.  They  employ 
at  present  15  men. 


THOMAS  J.  RUSSELL,  Farmer. 


Born  February  1st.  1851.  on  Eight 
Mile    Prairie,    near    Carterville,    only 


NEW     VIRGINIA     COAL    Ml.N  E.  JOHXSOX  CITY.   ILLIXOIS. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLINOIS. 


REV.    D.    A.    HUNTER,  REV.    J.    C.    BLIZZARD. 

Pastor   of   Christian    Chiirclr,    Herrin.       Pastor    of    M.     E,      Cliurch,     Herrin. 

Illinois.  Illinois. 


ELDER   G.    W.    SYPERT, 

Pastor     of    Baptist    Church,     Herrin, 

Illinois. 


Andrew  Voss,  an  old  Russian  sol- 
dier. Colonel  Voss  was  always  too 
sick  to  appear  when  there  was  any 
prospect  of  a  scrimmage,  and  Lieut. - 
Col.  Habrook  Davis  always  led  the 
regiment.  His  regiment  first  went 
East,  where  they  served  for  two 
years,  but  having  greatly  reduced  in 
members,  they  were  ordered  to  re- 
port to  Chicago,  where  they  were  re- 
organized and  sent  to  New  Orleans 
an  1  up  the  Re  I  Cross  River,  and  fol- 
lowed the  misfortunes  of  Gen.  Banks 
until  the  close  of  the  war. 

He  was  mustered  out  May  2  8, 
1SG6,  after  four  years,  four  months 
and  twelve  days'  service,  without  a 
scratch. 

He  was  married  October  12.  IS 59, 
to  Barbara  Connell,  of  Kankakee, 
111.,  by  whom  he  has  had  five  living 
children.  Their  names  in  the  order 
of  their  birth  are:  Mrs.  Mary  Wool- 
sey,  Alto  Pass,  Union  Co.;  Mrs.  Me- 
lissa Bell  Asbury,  Alto  Pass;  Mrs. 
Nancy  Paris,  Jonsboro,  Union  Co.; 
Christopher  C.  Tyner,  Jackson  Co. 
He  was  for  some  years  a  member  of 
the  United  Baptist  Church,  but  left 
them  and  united  with  the  Missionary 
Baptist  Church,  and  was  licensed  by 
them  to  preach  in  1873.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics. 


DEWMAINE   SOCIAL   BAND 


Was  organized  April  12,  1904. 
It  meets  every  Monday  and  Wednes- 
day evening  for  practice.  They  fur- 
nish music  for  all  social  meets  at 
$2.50  a  day  and  expenses. 
The  members  are  as  follows: 
Ira  Valentine,  B  Cornet,  Leader: 
Everett  Farar.  Granville  Ashcraft, 
John  Griffith,  cornets;  Jessie  O.  Wy- 
att,   clarinet;    H.    O.    Shadden,   J.    L. 


Floyd,  trombone:  William  Carter, 
tenor;  Ward  Farar,  baritone;  Sam'l. 
Walker,  tuba,  bass;  Perry  Mathews, 
Walter  Carter,  Richard  McReynoHs, 
altos;  Johnnie  Hudson,  snare  drum: 
Walter  Harrison,  bass  drum;  James 
Wiseman,    honorary   member,   cornet. 


F.   P.   CROSSLEY. 


F.  P.  Crossley,  top  foreman  for 
No.  S  coal  mine,  is  the  son  of  Peter 
Crossley,  a  miller  at  Crab  Orchard, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  74.  He  was 
born  at  Crab  Orchard  March  2  7, 
1S63.  but  moved  away  with  his  pa- 
rents  when  but  three  years  old.      He 


early  took  to  the  trade  of  carpenter, 
and  has  been  chiefly  engaged  in  that 
line  of  business  all  his  life.  He  has 
built  many  of  the  largest  mines  of 
the  country,  among  which  may  be 
mentioned  Sunnyside,  Reed  No.  3 
and  the  great  No.  8  mine  anl  wash- 
er, the  largest  in  the  United  States. 

His  wife  was  Camilla  Ella  Boores, 
by  whom  he  has  had  five  children. 
Of  these  four  are  living,  two  boys 
and   two   girls. 

LEMONS  BOREN,   Farmer. 


This   substantial    old    pioneer     was 
born   October   9.   1825,   in  Tregg  Co.. 


FIRST    CHRISTIAN    CHURCH,    Herrin,    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS 


23 


DR. 

W. 

H.    FORD.    M.    D., 

irector 

of 

Herrin     State-Savin 
Bank. 

E.    i\.    DILLARD, 

sident    of    Herrin    State-Sav- 
iuas   Banlc. 


U.    R.    STOTLAR, 

Boolvlveeper  and  Assistant  Cashier  of 

Herrin   State-Savings   Bank. 


Ky.  He  came  with  his  parents  to 
Jackson  Co.,  HI.,  when  but  Ave  years 
old,  and  settled  within  one  and  one- 
half  miles  of  Carbondale.  His  pa- 
rents were  James  Boren  and  Sarah 
Winget.  who  lived  where  they  first 
located  till  a  good  old  age.  In 
March,  ISGO,  Lemons  bought  the 
land  where  he  now  lives.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1S4G,  he  married  Lucinda 
Dunn,  by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren, none  of  whom  are  now  living. 
For  his  second  wife  he  took  Melissa 
A.  Crain,  by  whom  he  had  ten  chil- 
dren. He  raised  eight  of  them,  anl 
all  are  living  and  married.  They 
are:  Ephriam  Boren,  Herrin;  Wm. 
Boren,  Marion;  Sarah,  wife  of  Milo 
Hindman,  a  mining  engineer  at  Car- 
terville;  Mary,  wife  of  Smith  McNeil, 
a  farmer;  Alice,  wife  of  Jas.  Crain. 
Carterville;  Annis,  wife  of  Alfred 
Selcher,  farmer;  Nellie,  wife  of  Sam- 
uel Painter.  He  is  a  Democrat  and 
a   Missionary   Baptist 


V.   RICE, 

Drugs,  Melicines  and  Toilet  Articles. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born  near  Nashville,  111.,  February 
14,  1845.  His  early  life  was  spent 
on  a  farm,  but  in  1877  he  entered 
the  employ  of  George  S.  Anderson,  a 
druggist  of  Nashville.  Ten  years 
later  he  passed  examination  before 
the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  and  in 
1879  moved  to  Benton,  111.,  and 
bought  out  the  business  of  J.  A.  Dol- 
lins  and  opened  a  drug  store  on  his 
own  account.  He  ran  it  at  Benton 
for  eight  years  and  sold  out  to  Dr. 
E.  V.  Hutson.  For  the  five  years  fol- 
lowing he  ran  the  business  in  the  in- 
terests of  Dr.  Hutson.  In  1892  he 
came  to  Carterville  and  bought  an 
entirely     new     and     fresh     stock     of 


goods  and  has  run  the  business  here 
ever  since. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Sarah  J.  Bran- 
non,  a  native  of  St.  Clair  County,  by 
whom  he  has  had  six  children,  all 
living  but  one.  Their  names  in  the 
order  of  their  birth  are  as  follows: 
James  A.,  Milo  P.,  Ella,  Hiram  T.. 
Armour  W.   and   Paul   B. 

Mr.  Rice  is  an  Odd  Fellow,  K.  P., 
and  a  trustee  of  the  M.  E.  church  at 
Carterville. 


GEO.   W.   ADAMS,    Miner. 

George  W.  Adams  is  of  Scotch  an- 
cestry, and  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Dunstocher,  Kilpatrick  Parish,  Dum- 


bartrushire,  Scotland.  His  father 
was  a  stone  mason  by  trade,  and 
died  at  the  early  age  of  46,  and  his 
mother  in  giving  birth  to  her  son 
died  at  the  age  of  2  9.  The  boy  came 
to  New  York  when  but  16  years  old 
and  staid  two  weeks  with  his  rela- 
tives there,  and  then  went  on  to  Mc- 
Keesport,  Pa.,  and  went  to  work  in 
the  coal  mines  there.  He  remained 
at  McKeesport  but  three  years  when 
he  went  to  Evansville,  Ind.,  where 
he  married  Lavina  Rothley  and 
moved  back  to  Pennsylvania.  He 
lived  in  Sharon.  Mercer  County  six 
or  seven  years,  where  his  eldest  child 
was  born. 

In    those   early    days    miners   were 


INSIDE   OF   THE    HERRIN    STATE  SAVINGS  BANK,   1905. 


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SOl'\'FNIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


FIRST    NATIONAL   BANK,    Herrin.    Illinois. 


more  given  to  roving  from  one  min- 
ing district  to  another  than  they  are 
now,  and  after  spending  four  years 
more  at  McKeesport,  Mr.  Adams  vis- 
ited and  mined  in  Evansville,  Ind., 
Morgan  County,  III.,  Springfield,  III., 
Brazil,  Clay  Co.,  Ind.,  Shawneetown, 
Gallatin  County,  111.,  and  Burnsiie, 
Johnson  County,  III.  At  Burnside 
he  left  his  wife  and  ciiildren  and 
struck  out  for  the  West.  He  first 
struck  Laredo,  Texas,  and  then  tried 
silver  mining  at  Monterey,  Mexico,  a 
while.  But  he  couldn't  stand  the 
"grease"  very  long,  and  in  about 
three  months  we  find  him  in  Raton, 
N.  M.,  on  the  Santa  Fe  Ry. 

He  next  fetches  up  at  Rock 
Springs,  Wyoming,  and  from  there 
to  Walsingburg,  Colorado.  He  was 
getting  pretty  homesick  by  this  time, 
and  turning  his  back  on  silver  mines, 
gold  mines  and  sundries,  he  turned 
his  face  homewards.  After  four  or 
five  months  at  Burnside  with  his 
family  he  came  to  Carterville.  This 
was  in  1874.  He  went  to  work  for 
the  Burr  mine,  bought  a  home  and 
settled   down   for   good. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adams  are  the  pa- 
rents of  eleven  children,  seven  boys 
and  four  girls.  Of  these  six  sons  and 
one  daughter  are  living.  The  sons 
all  follow  their  father's  business,  are 
all  married  and  all  live  in  Carter- 
ville but  one,  who  lives  in  Bellevile. 
Their  names  in  the  order  of  their 
birth  are:  George;  Susan,  deceased 
wife  of  Charles  McLaughlin,  a 
miner;  Jane,  the  widow  of  Ernst 
Boyd;  Daniel,  killed  in  a  coal  mine 
in  Indiana;  John,  Sandy,  Archibald, 
Edward,  Kate,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Walter,  and  Lavina,  who  died  in 
November,    1894. 

Mrs.  Adams  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  Mr.  Adams  is 
a  lifelong  Republican,  a  member     of 


the  I.  O.  O.  F.,  the  Free  Gardeners 
and  of  the  United  Mine  Workers  of 
America.  He  was  at  home  at  the 
time  of  the  riot  and  helped  to  pick 
up  and  remove  the  slaughtered  ne- 
groes. He  claims  that  one  Elmer 
James  heard  the  negroes  say  at  a 
saloon  before  they  came  down  town 
that  they  were  coming  to  Carterville 
to  take  the  town,  and  the  negroes 
who  were  killed  were  all  heavily 
armed.  He  says  he  took  a  pack  of 
cards  and  a  pistol  from  the  pocket  of 
the  negro  preacher  who  was  killed. 
None  of  the  men  who  did  the  shoot- 
ing were  armed  when  the  colored 
men  came  to  the  depot,  but  when 
they  saw  that  trouble  was  brewing, 
they  hurried    home  and     reappeared 


wiih  guns  in  their  hands,  and  then 
ordeied  the  negroes  lo  disperse,  and 
I  lie  shooting  began.  A  full  state- 
ment will  be  found  elsewhere  from 
llie   pen   of   Mr.   Sam   T.   Brush. 


LUTHER    WESTER 
f   Wester   Brothers,    proprietors    of 
Delmonico     Restaurant     and      Ice 
Cream     Parlors,      Carterville 
Opened    July    27th,    19(i4. 


111. 


this  ske:;ch  was 
Rock,  Tennessee, 
His  early  life,  till 
old,  was  spent 
1   the  farm     in 


The  subject  of 
horn  in  Hollow 
.March  20,  1JS77. 
the  age  of  ten  yea 
with  his  parents 
Tennessee,  when  the  family  moved 
to  Marion.  As  usual  with  American 
lioys,  he  did  whatever  his  hands 
found  to  do,  and  as  well  and  thor- 
oughly as  the  majority,  until  July  of 
the  present  year,  when  he  and  his 
lirother  took  hold  of  the  restaurant 
business  and  started  the  Delmonico, 
which  has  become  the  leading  house 
in  that  line  in  Carterville.  The 
managers  are  shrewd,  honest  and 
capable,  and  give  their  patrons  gen- 
eral  satisfaction. 

His  wife  was  Laura  Holland,  a 
Kentucky  lady,  to  whom  he  was 
united  May  23rd,  1899,  and  to 
whom  two  children  have  been  born, 
Lillian  and  Paul.  He  is  a  member 
of  the   Missionary  Baptist  Church. 


W.  T.  NEWTON,  Miner. 

\V.  T.  Newton  was  born  May  4th, 
1S35,  in  Hardin  Co.,  Ky.,  married 
February  3rd,  1859,  to  Sarah  Ellen 
Williams.  He  followed  the  plow  un- 
til he  came  to  Carterville,  August  1, 
1882,  run  a  meat  market  until  the 
following  February,  when  he  went 
into   the   mines.      Ten   children   were 


PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH,    Carterville,    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


six  years  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  County.  He  first  married  Belle 
Baxter,  May  4,  ISSl,  by  whom  he 
had  one  child.  Bertha.  She  married 
Kd  Bentley,  of  Marion.  His  first 
wife  died  .luly  2,  1SS2,  and  he  mar- 
ried, September  14,  1884.  His  sec- 
ond wife  was  Cora  Fox,  who  gave 
birth  to  three  children  and  died 
February  25.  1898.  Her  children 
were  James  Wesley.  Dora  and  Mor- 
ris. His  third  wife  was  Miss  .lulia 
Fox.  to  whom  he  was  united  October 
0,  189S.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Gras- 
sy   Missionary    Baptist    Church. 


NEW    .MlXl::    OX    I.    C.    RY.,     .Near     .lohnson      Cit> 


born  to  this  couple,  eight  of  whom 
are  living  and  all  married.  Their 
names  in  the  order  of  their  ages  are 
as  follows:  Mrs.  Maggie  D.  Crain, 
Samuel  Newton,  employe  of  the 
Donnelly  Mine:  Mrs.  Zarado  Price 
Watson,  Carterville;  Lewis  Newton, 
miner,  Marion:  Charles  Newton, 
miner,  Marion:  Robert  Newton,  No. 
8  mine,  Carterville;  Mrs.  Leslie  S. 
Hester,  Marion:  Thos.  .J.  Newton, 
Sunnyside  mine.  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  New- 
ton have  twenty-nine  grand  children 
and    three    great   grandchildren. 


CHAS.  FREDERICK  STARRICK 


Was  born  August  Z\,  182  7,  in 
Berks  Co.,  Pa.,  in  the  village  of  Red- 
ding. Upon  coming  to  Illinois  he 
first  settled  in  Belleville,  St.  Clair 
County  in  184G.  Two  years  later, 
December  2u,  1848,  he  married  his 
first  wife,  Martha  Beavers,  who  died 
in  July,  18  52,  of  cholera.  In  185(; 
he  moved  into  Williamson  County, 
near  the  Franklin  County  line,  and 
in  185  7  married  his  second  wife. 
who  died  in  March,  187.j.  By  her 
he  had  seven  children.  On  the  8th 
of  June,  18  7.1.  he  married  a  third 
time. 

He  was  one  of  the  first  to  enlist 
in  the  Mexican  War  and  went  over- 
land to  Santa  Fe  with  the  rest  of 
the  boys  from  this  section,  and  back 
again  without  smelling  powder. 
When  the  Civil  War  broke  out.  ha 
enlisted,  in  1802,  in  the  8lKt  Illinois. 
Co.  D.,  Colonel  James  Dollance,  com- 
mander;    Cornelius    Ward,     Captain. 

He  became  stone  blind  by  a  bullet 
which  cut  the  button  from  his  cap, 
and  was  discharged  in  January, 
1SG6,  at  Montgomery,  Alabama. 
Aside  from  this  he  never  received  a 
scratch  through  all  the  hard-fought 
battles  of  the  war.  He  now  draws  a 
pension  of  $72  a  month  for  total 
disability. 


He  has  a  little  farm  of  7  7  acres 
near  Pulley's  Mill,  but  lives  in  Car- 
tetrville  with  his  wife,  who  attends 
him  wherever  he  goes,  and  treats 
him  with  unwearied  kindness  and 
affection.  He  has  been  a  member  of 
the  M.  E.  Church  since  before  the 
war. 

WILLIAM    HAYTON.    Farmer. 

Was  born  .March  o.  IS.'iii.  at  the 
little  village  of  Bainbridge,  111.  He 
was  the  oldest  son  of  the  late  Dr. 
James  Hayton,  and  was  raised  a 
farmer.  The  Doctor  gave  him  all 
the  advantages  for  education  afford- 
ed by  his  section  in  that  early  day. 
He  supplemented  his  home  instruc- 
tion and  the  common  school  by  a 
course  at  the  Normal  School  at 
Bloomington.  111.,  but  he  rounded  off 
his  o^vn  school   days  by  teaching  for 


HUGH    M.    RICHART, 
Farmer,    Lauder,   Illinois. 

Hugh  .M.  Kichart  is  a  native  of 
Columbia  County,  Pa.,  where  he 
was  born  February  2:'..  182G.  He  is 
the  son  of  William  and  Sarah  N. 
Richart  (McAllister),  and  came  with 
his  parents  to  Williamson  County  in 
18411,  the  mother  dying  the  same 
year  and  the  father  two  years  later. 
They  settled  on  a  piece  of  wild  land 
near  where  the  village  of  Lauder 
now  stands,  and  made  a  comfortable 
living  in  the  wilderness  by  industry 
and  ingenuity.  He  was  the  oldest 
of  four  brothers  and  three  sisters, 
and  upon  the  death  of  their  parents 
had  to  be  the  father  of  the  family. 
They  could  raise  plenty  of  corn  for 
their  bread,  and  as  game  was  plenti- 
ful the  boys  were  soon  able  to  have 
an  abundance  of  fresh  meat.  Their 
corn  they  got  coarsely  ground  at  a 
horse  mill,  and  with  potatoes  and 
other  vegetables,  never  suffered  for 
food.  Their  first  wheat  flour  was 
bought  at  Chester,  and  Hugh  was  a 
man  grown  before  he  had  wheat 
flour.  He  was  a  playmate  and  boon 
companion  of  John  A.  Logan  for 
years,  there  being  only  a  few  days- 
difference   in    their   ages. 


NEW    OHIO    WASHED    COAL    CO.    .MINE    NO.     L    Carterville,    111. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


OPERA    HOUSE.   Henin,    lllinoi>^ 


On  August  1st,  1S62,  he  entered 
the  service  in  the  81st  111.,  Co.  G., 
Logan's  division,  Col.  Rogers  com- 
manding. He  was  first  under  fire  at 
Thompson's  Hill,  Miss.,  and  served 
in  all  the  battles  of  his  division  to 
the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  where  he 
was  wounded  four  times  within  an 
hour.  He  was  shot  all  to  pieces,  and 
laid  unattended  on  the  field  until 
his  wounds  were  filled  with  mag- 
gots. But  a  vigorous  constitution 
with  careful  attention  and  the  mer- 
cy of  God  brought  him  through.  He 
was  taken  to  Jackson  Hospital  at 
Memphis,  where  he  remained  three 
months  and  was  sent  home  on  a 
furlough.  After  four  months'  rest 
and  nursing  he  returned  to  his  regi- 
ment and  served  two  years  longer. 
He  was  mustered  out  August  1st, 
1865,  at  Chicago.  He  did  not  marry 
until  the  following  December,  when 
39  years  old.  His  wife  was  Rebecca 
Harrison,  a  relative  of  President 
Benjamin  Harrison,  and  a  native  of 
Ohio.  She  gave  birth  to  two  chil- 
dren, Frederick  William,  now  a 
Civil  Engineer  at  Carterville,  and 
Bertha,  who  died  when  six  years  old. 
She  died  November   10th,   1S91. 

Mr.  Richart  is  a  Republican  in 
politics  and  active  and  influential, 
but  never  an  office  seeker.  He 
served,  however,  as  constable  and 
was  County  Commissioner  for  a 
term.  He  has  been  a  prominent  and 
active  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  for  2  3  years,  and  an  elder  in 
it  ever  since  its  organization.  He  is 
a  member  also  of  the  G.   A.   R. 

Since  the  above  was  written  Mr. 
Richart  has  closed  his  life's  work 
and  has  been  laid  away  to  rest. 


born  December  3  0,  IS 3 5,  in  Eight 
Mile  precinct,  within  one-fourth  of 
a  mile  from  where  his  house  now 
stands.        His    father    was    Abraham 


-North,  a  native  of  Manchfiter,  Eng- 
land, who  came  to  Phila.le'.phia  in 
1818  and  to  Eight  Mile  precinct  in 
1S23.  He  was  a  farmer  and  stock- 
man and  became  the  ow:ie.'  of  a 
large  piece  of  land  in  that  location, 
and  died  in  1856.  His  wife  was 
Nancy  Tyner,  who  was  born  in  Rob- 
ertson County,  Tenn.,  in  1802,  and 
died  in  ISU. 

Abram,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  reared  on  a  farm,  80  acres  of 
which  he  inherited  at  the  death  of 
his  father.  He  lived  with  his  pa- 
rents until  about  21  years  old,  when 
his  father  died.  In  1858  he  started 
for  California  across  the  plains  with 
o\-teams  in  company  with  hun- 
dreds of  others.  They  started  in 
September  and  went  by  way  of  Den- 
ver, which  they  helped  to  lay  out. 
and  wintered  there.  About  the  1.5th 
of  the  following  June  they  resumed 
their  journey  and  reached  Stockton 
August  1st.  He  never  went  to  the 
mines,  but  turned  his  attention  to 
farming  and  stock  and  spent  about 
eight  years  in  California,  Arizona 
and    New    Mexico. 

In  18  60  he  entered  the  cavalry 
service   and   went  to   look   after    the 


ABRAM  H.  NORTH,  Farmer. 


Abram   H.   North     is   a   native    of 
Williamson     County,     111,,     and     was 


AlK.     A.Xl)     .\1US.     .\.     \V.     STOTLAR. 
In   the   Colorado   Mountains    on    a    uioasure    trip. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLLNOIS. 


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NUBBIN    RIDGE    MINE.    Herrin.    Illinois. 


among  modern  women  of  easy  con- 
sciences, who  seem  to  be  courting 
early  deaths  and  the  extinction  of 
the  native  born  population.  ilrs. 
North  is  an  earnest  and  faithful 
member  of  the  Christian  Church  in 
the  neighborhood.  They  donate  1  the 
ground  on  which  the  church.  West 
Chapel,  stands.  The  needy  never 
came  to  Mrs.  North  and  went  away 
empty. 

The  names  of  their  children  in  the 
order  of  their  ages  are  as  follows: 

Mrs.  Dora  Culp,  wife  of  John 
Culp,  Carterville;  William  North,  on 
the  farm;  Mrs.  Florence  Day,  wife  ot 
Winfield  Day,  Cottage  Home  P.  O.; 
John  T.  North,  farmer;  Mrs.  Luella 
Tygett,  wife  of  George  Tygett,  Her- 
rin; Abraham  North,  railroader,  Car- 
bondale;  James  North,  mining  en- 
gineer; Grant  North,  farmer,  Carter- 
ville; Mrs.  Dolly  Russell,  wife  of 
Abram  Russell,  Carterville,  and 
Harvey  North,  lumber,  Carterville. 


Indians,  who  were  very  troublesome 
in  those  days.  At  the  breaking  out 
of  the  war  his  regiment,  the  1st  Cali- 
fornia Cavalry,  Co.  G.,  was  contin- 
ued in  the  Indian  country,  and  he 
was  not  mustered  out  till  February, 
1S66,  at  Santa  Fe,  N.  M. 

After  his  discharge  he  returned  to 
his  old  home  and  married  Hannah, 
the  daughter  of  Edwin  Fozzard. 
She  had  two  children  and  died.  Her 
daughter,  Olive  M.,  married  Frank 
Hampton  March  17,  1874.  Mr. 
North  took  a  second  wife,  Ann  Man- 
ning, by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren. She  died  Ju'.y  21,  1SS7.  Her 
children  were  Inez,  wife  of  Charles 
Swarz,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.;  William 
H.,  Richard  H.,  Samuel  H.,  Joseph 
H.,  Jessie,  wife  of  Roy  Tygett,  and 
Thomas  H.  He  is  a  Republican  and 
member  of  the  G.  A.  R. 


GEORGE  J.  NORTH,  Deceased. 


Born  March  2  8,  1825,  on  Eight 
Mile  Prairie,  Williamson  County,  Il- 
linois, reared  on  a  farm  and  always 
followed  that  occupation.  He  was 
one  of  the  soldiers  of  Gen.  Logan 
who  went  to  New  Mexico  to  fight  the 
Mexicans,  but  was  too  late  to  see 
service  and  returned  across  the 
plains  as  they  went.  He  was  in  Co. 
B.,  1st  Regt.  111.  Vol.  He  was  honor- 
ably discharged  October  11,  1S4S,  at 
Alton,  111.,  signed  by  J.  M.  Cunning- 
ham, Captain.  He  entere  1  the  ser- 
vice May  2Sth,  1847.  He  returned 
to  his  farm  and  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  days  there.  He  was  always  in- 
dustrious, and  the  farm  gave  them  a 
good   living. 

His  wife's  name  was  Fredonia  M. 
Ryburn,  to  whom  he  was  united  Oct. 
3,  1849.  They  had  a  family  of  ten 
children,  all  of  whom  are  living, 
married    and    settled    in    life. 

Mrs.  North  was  born  December 
2,   1828,  on  the  farm  now  known  as 


the  Hinchlift  Farm  on  Eight  Mile 
Prairie,  and  is  therefore  now  7  6 
years  old  the  coming  December.  She 
had  the  usual  contest  with  the  meas- 
les, whooping  cough,  etc.,  and  re- 
lates that  seven  of  her  children  were 
sick  with  the  measles  at  one  time, 
and  she  took  care  of  them  all  with 
a  babe  in  her  arms,  and  passed  four 
days  and  nights  without  sleep.  Her 
health  and  strength  is  remarkable, 
she  sleeps  sound  and  is  without  a 
pain  day  or  night. 

Mr.  North  was  a  Republican  and 
so  is  his  wife,  and  every  one  of  her 
children  and  grand  children.  The 
old  laiy  says  she  never  gave  any 
Democratic  milk.  They  count  :3  2 
Republican  votes.  The  family  num- 
bers 1(1  children,  42  grand  children 
and  8  great  grand  children.  This 
record  is  certainly  a  grand  one  in  the 
face     of      the     declining      birth     rate 


DR.  JAMES  HAYTON,  Deceased. 

Dr.  Hayton  was  born  near  Hud- 
dersfield,  England,  December  16th, 
1815.  His  parents  were  Robert  and 
Ann  Hayton,  of  Yorkshire,  England, 
who  never  came  to  America  but  lived 
and  died  in  England,  the  father 
July  21,  1859,  aged  76,  and  the 
mother   the   May   previous,   aged    75. 

On  the  loth  of  January,  1841, 
while  still  in  England,  James  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Crowther.  She  came 
to  America  with  him  and  died  Sep- 
tember 27,  1843,  at  the  age  of  20. 
She  left  one  son,  Alfred,  who  now 
lives  at  Lauder,  a  miner  by  o'cupa- 
tion.  The  young  couple  landed  at 
New  Orleans  October  30,  1841,  and 
about  three  weeks  later  came  to  Wil- 
liamson County. 

His  second  wife  was  Ann  Crow- 
ther.    She  had  ten  children,  six  boya 


.SIWXVSIUE    MINE,   Herrin,   Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


HOPK 
PI.A.VT. 


101,K("'rRIC       LIGHT 
Carlerville.    111. 


\'IE\V    LOOKIXG    E.\ST    OX    .lACKSOX     ST..      Herrin.     111. 


and  four  .^iils.  of  whom  six  are  liv- 
ing. She  died  at  the  age  of  49,  Jan. 
1.  ISSl.  Her  children  were;  Wil- 
liam, P.  O..  Carhondale;  George. 
Carbondale;  Robert,  Carhondale: 
Joseph.  Carbondale;  Emma,  a  nurse 
in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  Mary,  wife  of 
Ed  Gully,   Marion. 

Dr.  Hayton's  education  was  main- 
ly acquired  in  England.  He  studied 
meiicine  under  an  uncle,  by  the 
name  of  LocUwood,  but  did  not  be- 
gin to  practice  until  he  reached 
America.  For  many  years  he  was 
the  principal  physician  over  a  wide 
section  of  this  part  of  the  state,  and 
for  5  years  practiced  his  profession 
with  honor  and  success.  Until  with- 
in ten  years  of  his  death  he  was  un- 
remitting in  his  devotion  to  it,  and 
became  one  of  the  most  noted  and 
successful  physicians  in  Southern  Il- 
linois. He  was  a  hard  student  and  a 
great  reader  all  his  life,  an  1  ac- 
quired a  fund  of  general  information 
which  made  him  a  very  broad  mind- 
ed  man. 

He  was  a  Republican  in  politics, 
when  it  was  dangerous  to  be  such, 
and  was  appointed  by  old  Governor 
Dick  Yates  one  of  three  draft  com- 
missioners for  the  County,  the  othpr.s 
being  Dr.  Owens  and  Dr.  Lewis.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Wesleyans  in 
England,  but  never  united  with  the 
M.  E.  Church  here,  although  his  re- 
ligious faith  and  sympathies  re- 
mained unchanged.  His  death  oc- 
curred July  7,  1904,  after  a  three 
weeks'    illness    with    bowel    trouble. 


when  she  became  a  widow  she  moved 
her  family  of  seven  children  to  Creal 
Springs,   where   she   died   in    IS 97. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the 
sixth  child,  and  in  August,  189-5. 
while  his  mother  was  living,  he  took 
up  the  photography  business,  under 
the  instruction  of  J.  W.  Tutlel,  of 
Creal  Springs.  Three  years  later, 
June  27,  1S9S,  he  opened  a  stu  io  in 
Carterville,  where  he  has  remained 
till   the   present   time. 

His  marriage  took  place  December 
10th,  1902,  to  Mias  Cassie  Galli- 
more,  sister  of  Judge  Gallimore,  City 
Attorney  of  Carterville.  He  is  a 
Democrat  in  politics  and  a  member 
of   the  L   O.   O.   F. 


The  first  electric  light  in  Carter- 
ville was  installed  by  the  Hope  Elec- 

1  lie  and  Power  Company  of  Carter- 
ville.  It  was  organized  by  Mr.  A.  C. 
Hojie,  in  whose  honor  it  was  named 
and  who  was  one  of  its  principal 
stockholders.  He  was  a  thorough 
mechanic,  educated  and  trained  in 
Scotland,  and  the  only  practical  man 
in  a  stock  company  composed  of  men 
ignorant  of  the  whole  business.  The 
usual  result  followed — those  who 
thought  they  knew  outvoted  the  one 
who  did  know,  and  after  two  years 
lie  sold  them  his  interest  and  retired 
from  the  business.  Another  com- 
pany was  soon  after  formed  of  men 
with  money  but  neither  knowledge 
nor  experience  in  the  business  to 
succeed  a  failing  ope.  This  was 
known  as  the  J.  C.  West  Electric  Co., 
which  after  five  years'  experience 
learned  that  "knowledge  is  power," 
and  rented  their  plant  to  Mr.  Hope, 
who  had  already  come  into  sole  own- 
ership of  the  old  company.  In  Jan- 
uary, 190:3,  he  bought  out  the  West 
interest  and  became  what  he  is  like- 
ly long  to  remain,  the  sole  proprietor 
of  the  Electric  Light  business  in 
Carterville. 

The  plant  has  now  a  boiler,  capac- 
ity of  160  horse  power;  an  engine, 
capacity  200  horse  power,  and  a 
dynamo,  capacity  of  2  2  1-2  T.  W.  or 

2  2.50  candle  power.  It  uses  20 
miles  of  main  wire  in  the  city  and  as 
much  more  for  branches  and  connec- 
tions. It  uses  the  arc  light  for  the 
lighting  of  streets,  of  1250  candle 
power,  alternating  and  closed  arc. 
Series      incandescent     for      suburban 


J.   W.   RVSSELL.   Photographer. 

Was  born  in  Richland  Co..  111.,  in 
1867.  His  father,  W.  F.  Russell, 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  died 
in  July,  1888.  The  maiden  name  of 
his  mother   was   Merica   Smith,     and 


OLD    SCHOOL    BUILDIXG.      Herrin, 
School    Boy    "!)"    in    P'ront. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


29 


GEO.     H.     llAlUilSUN'S    IvESlDEXCH,    IKiriii.     Ill 


street  lighting  of  3  2  candle  power 
each,  while  business  houses  and  res- 
idences are  lighted  by  the  usual  mul- 
tiple system.  Travelers  say  that 
Carterville  is  one  of  the  best  lighted 
cities  in  Southern   Illinois. 

WILLIAM     GREATHOrSE, 
Pioneer. 

William  Greathouse  was  born  in 
Kentucky  February  28th,  1S2G.  He 
came  to  Jackson  County  in  183  9.  He 
was  raised  on  a  farm  and  .had  little 
or  no  schooling.  His  first  wife  was 
Bethena  Tabor,  by  whom  he  ha  .1  five 
children,  two  now  living.  His  sec- 
ond wife  was  Sarah  Jane  Biggs,  a 
widow,  by  whom  he  had  eight  chil- 
dren, five  of  whom  are  still  living. 
He  is  Republican  in  politics  and  be- 
longs to  the  M.   E.   Church. 

William  Greathouse  was  laid  to 
rest  since  the  above  article  was 
written. 


THIS  pretty  little  village  is  located 
on  a  spur  of  the  Ozark  range, 
running  through  Southern  Illinois. 
Kentucky,  Missouri  and  Arkansas, 
1300  feet  above  sea  level.  It  is  on 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  4n 
miles  from  Paducah,  Ky..  and  12ii 
from  St.  Louis,  connecting  with  the 
Illinois  Central  main  line  to  Cairo 
at  Carbondale.  It  is  picturesquely 
located  on  and  among  the  gentle 
elevations  and  undulations,  a  rich, 
productive,  well-timbered  and  wa- 
tered country,  stretching  in  all  di- 
rections. It  is  an  incorporated  vil- 
lage with  a  population  of  about 
1000.  The    mineral    springs    sur- 

rounding the  Ozark  Hotel  constitute 
its  main  attraction,  and  as  a  health 
resort  probably  have  no  equal  in 
this  country.  In  consequence  of  lo- 
cal and  factional  strife,  and  possibly 


mismanagement,  the  fine  hotel  is  at 
present  writing  closed.  but  the 
health-giving  waters  are  still  used 
locally  and  to  a  limited  extent  by 
outside  visitors  with  unfailing  suc- 
cess. 

The  village  is  grouped  aljout  the 
Hotel  and  Springs,  and  its  business 
houses  do  a  local  business  with  ad- 
joining farmers,  although  some  live 
stock  is  bought  and  shipped  at  this 
point.  It  is  in  the  midst  of  an  un- 
rivaled fruit  region,  which  is  con- 
tinually enlarging  its  area  and  out- 
put. 

The  following  list  comprises  the 
principal  men  in  business  at  the 
present   writing: 

Attorneys,   W.    L.    Fries.   Chas.     A. 


Jochum;  barbers,  J.  B.  Deason.  Jas. 
Simpson:  Citizens'  Bank,  A.  A. 
Dugger.  P.es..  I.  C.  Abney,  Cashier: 
bookseller  and  stationer,  D.  S.  An- 
derson: blacksmiths,  Thos.  M.  Tan- 
ner, James  Haley:  boarding  houses, 
Thomas  Taylor,  Mrs.  John  White- 
side. Mrs.  W.  W.  Woodside,  George 
B.  Chaniness:  canning  factory. 
Brown  &  McRaven:  carpenters  and 
builders.  D.  O.  Craig,  Will  Clark, 
Lewis  Dawson,  J.  L.  Gulley,  John 
Hatton.  Lewis  Simpson,  Geo.  Parks, 
H.  C.  and  Ed  Waist  on;  cigar  mak- 
ers. Mark  Cocke,  Mr.  Smith;  cloth- 
ing, Benjamin  Westbrook;  churches. 
Free  Baptist.  Missionary  Baptist. 
Congregational.  Christian.  .Methodist 
Episcopal;  draymen,  Deaton  &  Sul- 
lin.  Green  &  Patterson;  drugs  and 
meditines.  D.  S.  Anderson;  furniture 
and  undertaking,  W.  S.  Cocke;  gen- 
eral merchandise.  Allis  &  Clark. 
Brown  &  McRaven,  Wm.  Brim.  Wm. 
Leonard,  John  F.  Miller  &  Son,  J. 
M.  Rains.  Turner  &  Son,  Thomas 
Veach;  hardware,  J.  W.  Burnett,  R. 
Heasley:  hotels.  Ozark.  East  Side. 
Avenue  House:  livery,  Taylor  & 
Rains,  Lambert  &  Sullin:  lumber,  A. 
A.  Dugger:  mill  and  elevator.  Dug- 
ger &  Cocke:  meat  market,  Veach  & 
Lyrerla;  physicians  and  surgeons, 
Columbus  Brown,  J.  F.  Blanchard. 
D.  H.  Harris.  W.  P.  Sutherland: 
photographer,  J.  M.  Clayton;  paint- 
ers. Lewis  Dawson,  B.  Elmore,  W. 
H.  Shoemaker;  paper  hanger,  D.  O. 
Craig:  real  estate  and  insurance.  J. 
T.  Nicks,  B.  H.  Greer,  A.  J.  Hudgens. 
1.  L.  Gifford;  railroad  agent,  Illi- 
nois Central.  Job  Dunn:  stone  quar- 
ry and  dealer,  Ed  Campbell;  saw- 
mill. Byron  Gaskill,  Wm.  Gaskill: 
slock  dealers,  John  Riddle.  Trigg  & 
Albright.  W.  R.  Castleman.  Willis 
Harris:   teachers.  Mrs.  G.  B.  Murphy. 


.\1ISS1(I.\AK\      r.AI'TIS  |- 


IU'RCH.  Herrin.  111. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


STOTLAR    HERRIN    LUMBER    CO.,    Herrin    Branch. 


College;  Gilbert  Lentz,  \V.  H.  Fry, 
I.  L.  Gifford,  Miss  Mima  Hutchinson, 
Miss  Mayme  McRaven,  Mrs.  Hattie 
C.  Jochum;  public  officers,  Robert 
Murray,  postmaster;  board  of  educa- 
tion, W.  T.  Harris,  president;  Lem 
Ford,  Byron  Gaskill,  W.  S.  Brim,  J. 
M.  Rains,  John  F.  Miller,  A.  J.  Hul- 
gens;  city  officers,  Henry  C.  Wal- 
ston.  Mayor:  Edward  Sullin,  Clerk; 
I.  C.  Abney,  Treas.;  B.  H.  Greer,  Po- 
lice Magistrate;  John  Gulley,  Mar- 
shal; Geo.  B.  Chamness,  Justice  of 
the  Peace;  Aldermen,  J.  T.  Roberts, 
W.  T.  Harris,  J.  L.  Gulley,  J.  M. 
Rains,  G.  W.  Dempsey  and  John  Du- 
pont. 


town  is  free  from  saloons  or  other 
vicious  resorts,  an  I  its  influence  up- 
on the  young,  pure  and  healthful. 

The  College  Proper  includes  clas- 
sical, scientific  and  philosophical 
courses,  for  the  completion  of  which 
the   usual   degrees  are  conferred. 

The  Academic  Department  pre- 
pares for  college  and  affords  a  good 
general  education  for  those  who 
cannot  remain  for  a  full  college 
course.  For  the  completion  of  this 
course  certificates  of  graduation  are 
conferred. 

The  Normal  Department  has  many 
representatives  in  the  teaching  force 
of  Southern  Illinois,  and  not  a  few 
in   other   sections   and   other   states. 


CREAL  SPRINGS  COLLEGE. 


The  Musical  Department  has  grad- 
uate and  post  graduate  courses  in 
piano,  organ,  voice  and  harmony. 
For  the  completion  of  these  diplo- 
mas are  awarded. 

Elocution  receives  special  atten- 
tion. For  three  years  of  study  in  the 
expression  of  literature  in  addition 
to  the  Academic  Course,  diplomas 
are  conferred  in  the  English  Elocu- 
tion Department. 

The  Commercial  Department  is 
particularly  adapted  to  those  who 
have  not  the  time  or  means  to  re- 
main in  college  more  than  three 
years.  Graduates  of  this  course  find 
positions  in  banks  as  bookkeepers, 
accountants,  stenographers,  clerks, 
reporters,  etc.  This  course  includes 
commercial  law,  economics  and  very 
thorough  and  extended  work  in 
liookkeeping  and  hanking. 

The  International  Lyceum  Bureau 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  presents  a  num- 
ber of  attractions  in  the  College 
Chapel  this  year.  Among  the  speak- 
ers are  Dr.  Heindley,  of  Minnesota, 
Dr.  Lamar,  of  Nashville,  Tenn.,  and 
Prof.   Richards,   of  Chicago. 


JOHN  P.   TYGETT, 
Creal  Springs. 


John  P.  Tygett  is  the  son  of  Hugh 
Tygett  and  his  wife,  Nancy  Sames, 
and  was  horn  in  Weekly  Co.,  Tenn., 
December  10,  1S30.  His  father  died 
at  the  age  of  65  and  his  mother  at 
SO.  .  He  was  raised  on  a  farm,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Williamson 
County  in  183  9.  His  marriage  took 
place  January  17,  1857,  to  Miss 
Mary  Chenowith,  by  whom  he  had 
five  children,  all  living.  They  are 
Alfred,  Thomas,  William,  Elizabeth 
and  Sarah.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  pol- 
itics,  but   not   a   church   member. 


I^ocated  at  Creal  Springs,  Illinois, 
was  founded  in  1884  as  a  seminary 
by  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  H.  C.  Murrah,  and 
continued  under  their  control  for  ten 
years.  In  189  4  the  institution  was 
chartered  as  a  College  and  passed 
under  the  control  of  the  Baptist  de- 
nomination. The  location  is  health- 
ful and  retired,  yet  beautiful  and 
easy  of  access,  being  on  the  line  of 
the  Illinois  Central,  which  connects 
with  the  Big  Four  at  Parker  City,  a 
short  distance  to  the  southeast. 
Creal  Springs  is  an  ideal  place  for 
study.  It  is  among  the  Ozark  moun- 
tains, with  a  pure  and  invigorating 
atmosphere,  free  from  malaria,  and 
with  the  famous  medicinal  waters  of 
the  Springs  within  a  stone's  throw  of 
the   College. 

The  college  stands  on  an  emi- 
nence sloping  toward  the  west,  and 
only  three-fourths  of  a  mile  from 
the  passenger  depot.  It  is  embow- 
ered in  fruit  trees,  and  the  whole  ad- 
jacent district  is  a  flourishing  or- 
chard  of   all   kinds   of    fruit.         The 


M.    E.   CHURCH,     Herrin,    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLINOIS. 


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THE  --v     Ki.ixria 

Herrin   is   in   tlie   rear.   Carterville   at 


C    i;i:i.|-    LINE    RV. 

the   right    and   Marion   at    the   left. 


GREEN  B.  TUCKER 

Is  a  native  of  Murray  Co.,  Tenn., 
where  he  was  born  December  17, 
1S27.  His  parents  were  James  R. 
Tucker  and  Polly  Butts,  with  whom 
he  lived  until  2  2  years  old.  when,  in 
1849,  he  came  to  Illinois.  He  first 
settled  in  Grassy  Precinct,  this  coun- 
ty, but  afterwards  moved  to  Hardin 
County,  where  he  worked  for  two 
years  on  the  Illinois  Central  Rail- 
road, at  bridge-building  and  other 
carpenter  work.  He  was  brought 
up  to  the  occupation  of  cabinet-mak- 
er by  his  father,  who  followed  it,  and 
when  he  came  to  Illinois  he  contin- 
ued for  ten  years  to  follow  the  same 
line  of  business.  But  changing 
fashions  and  cheapening  methods  of 
manufacture  have  so  transformed 
the  business  that  there  is  no  longer 
any  profit  in  hand  work  and  the 
small  shop  or  factory,  and  he  was 
compellei  to  abandon  the  business. 

September  1,  1861,  he  heard  the 
call  to  arms  and  enlisted  in  the  6th 
Illinois  Cavalry,  Co.  L.  For  three 
years,  six  months  and  2  2  days  he 
served  this  country  on  many  a  hard- 
fought  field,  and  was  mustered  out 
at  Springfield,  111.,  December  23, 
1854.  He  was  married  June  1st, 
1854,  to  Miss  Eliza  A.  Cannon,  a 
Kentucky  lady  by  birth  but  who  was 
reared  in  Saline  County,  111.  She 
gave  birth  to  seven  children,  of 
whom  five  are  now  living,  and  diel 
July  28th,  1904. 


182  3.  When  but  three  years  old  his 
family  moved  to  West  Tennessee  and 
settled  near  Corinth,  Miss.,  where 
Raleigh  was  raised  and  where  he  ob- 
tained what  little  book-learning  he 
secured.  When  but  19  years  old,  in 
1842,  he  was  married  to  Charlotta 
Sears,  by  whom  he  had  eight  boys 
and  five  girls,  of  whom  seven  still 
survive.  In  1851  the  family  moved 
to  Illinois  and  settled  on  the  line  be- 
tween Franklin  and  Williamson 
Counties,  but  later  removed  to 
Northern  Precinct,  near  Corinth.  In 
1890  they  came  to  Creal  Springs, 
where  they  still  reside.  He  never 
enlisted,  but  sent  two  of  his  sons  to 


the  front,  where  one,  Hugh  G.  Rains, 
was   killed   in   battle. 

He  voted  for  Henry  Clay  in  1844, 
and  he  and  his  sons  have  voted  the 
Republican  ticket  ever  since.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  M.  E.  Church.  Mr. 
Rain's  first  wife  died  June  28,  1895. 
and  on  the  following  November  13th 
he  took  for  a  second  wife  Mrs.  Ann 
Eliza  Smith,  widow  of  James  Smith. 
She  lived  but  a  little  more  than  a 
year,  dying  November  16,  1896.  For 
his  third  partner  he  took  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Jane  Kent,  widow  of  Joseph 
Kent,  with  whom  he  hopes  to  spend 
the  remainder  of  his  days.  Physi- 
cally and  mentally  Mr.  Rains  is  a 
remarkably  well-preserved  man.  All 
his  faculties  and  members  are  nearly 
perfect,  and  he  enjoys  sound  health. 
rarely  using  a  cane. 


JASPER   CREAL 


Was  born  in  Cumberland  County, 
Ky.,  June  4,  1S32.  and  reared  on  a 
farm.  He  came  with  his  parents, 
Elijah  Creal  and  Temperance  Wil- 
born  Creal,  to  Creal  Springs  Oct.  10. 
184  8,  where  his  father  died  at  the 
age  of  62  and  his  mother  at  70.  His 
brother,  Edward,  laid  out  the  village 
of  Creal  and  died  at  the  age  of  56. 
He  enlisted  in  the  6th  Iowa  Cavalry 
in  1861  and  served  two  and  a  half 
years,  but  was  discharged  at  Jeffer- 
son Barracks,  Mo.,  April  10,  1864, 
by  reason  of  a  severe  wound  in  the 
wrist,  received  in  the  fight  at  Mos- 
cow, Tenn.  He  took  part  in  the  fa- 
mous Grierson  Raid  from  La  Grange 
to  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  on  which  they 
spent  sixteen  days  and  nights  of  con- 
tinuous  riding   and    fighting. 

His  first  wife  was  Nancy  Rich,  ot 
Kentucky,    to   whom  he  was    united 


RALEIGH  RAINS, 
Creal  Springs. 


Is  a  descendant  of  John  Rains  and 
Jane  Hammer  (nee  Rains),  and  was 
born  In  Warren  Co.,  Tenn.,  Nov.  22, 


ELECTRIC    LIGHT    &    POWER    CO.'S    PLANT,    Herrin,    111. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


FRED  GARDNER. 
Vice    Pres.    and    Gen.    Manager    New 
Ohio    Wasliecl    Coal    Co..    CliiiMKo. 
Carterville.     111. 

October  13,  1802.  She  gave  him 
three  childien,  of  whom  two  are  now 
living,  and  died  October  la,  1SS7, 
twenty-five  years  to  a  day  from  her 
marriage.  The  following  .June  he 
was  married  to  Martha  Royal,  who 
still  survives.  He  is  a  very  large, 
vigorous  and  active  man  for  a  man 
of  over  7  0  years  of  age,  a  Democrat 
in  politics  but  without  church  mem- 
bership. 


.lOSEPH   B.    HARRIS 


Was  born  in  Saline  County,  Uli- 
nois.  May  17,  1S44,  and  brought  up 
on  a  farm.  He  enlisted  August  21, 
1S62,  in  the  120th  111.  Vol.  Inft.,  Co. 
F.,  at  Harrisburg,  Saline  Co.,  and 
served  under  Gen.  Grant  in  the 
Vicksburg  Campaign,  but  on  a  forced 
march  in  June,  18  63,  he  was  sun- 
struck  and  so  badly  injured  that,  al- 
though he  escaped  with  his  life,  he 
never  recovered,  and  was  discharged 
on  that  account  from  the  hospital  at 
Memphis,  Tenn.,  July  S,  1865.  He 
is  still  partially  paralyzed  and  whol- 
ly incapacitated  from  active  labor, 
mentally  or  physically,  and  draws  a 
fine   pension   from   the   Government. 

He  was  married  June  22,  1866,  to 
Miss  Rachael  L.  Medlin,  who  died 
August  10,  1903,  leaving  four  living 
children,  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. They  are  Willis  T.  Harris,  Dr. 
David  H.  Harris,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane 
Johnson  and  Mrs.  Ida  L.  Shafer. 


HARMON  WHITACRE 

Is  a  native  of  Minerva,  Stark  Co., 
Ohio,  about  twelve  miles  from  Can- 
ton, the  ol  I  home  of  President  Mc- 
Kinley.  He  was  born  August  31. 
1824,   and  came  with    his  parents   in 


F.    P.    CROSSLEY,    Carterville. 
Top  Foreman  Xo.   S  Mine. 


1839.  when  but  15  years  old,  to 
Wayne  County,  Illinois.  He  began 
teaching  in  Wayne  County  in  1843, 
being  examined  for  the  old  board  of 
directors  at  Fairfield  by  G.  B.  Davis, 
and  receiving  his  first  certificate, 
which  he  preserved  and  still  retains. 
He  taught  six  months  for  his  first 
term,  and  followed  it  by  another  the 
winter   following. 

In  1845  he  came  to  Williamson 
County  and  settled  on  Grassy  Pre- 
cinct, about  twelve  miles  from  Ma- 
rion, near  Jackson  County.  He 
taught  the  only  school  then  in  Jack- 
son County,  and  afterwards,  about 
184S  and  '49,  a  year  in  the  Telford 
neighborhood.  He  read  law  in 
Jonesboro,  Union  County,  with  Gov- 
ernoi'  Dougherty,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  Yet  such 
was  his  reputation  as  a  teacher  and 
such  his  attachment  to  the  business 
that,  in  connection  witn  the  practice 
of  law  he  continued  to  teach  until 
1861. 

In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army,  made  up  a  company,  of  which 
he  was  elected  Captain,  but  was 
taken  sick  and  was  sent  home  to  lan- 
guish on  the  sick  list  all  summer. 
He  was  subsequently  discharged  for 
sickness  and  did  not  return  to  the 
service.  In  politics  he  was  an  Old 
Line  Whig,  and  became  a  staunch 
Republican  and  Union  Man  with  the 
boom  of  the  first  gun  fired  at  Fort 
Sumpter.  He  was  earnest  and  elo- 
quent, and  made  the  first  speeches  of 
the  war  in  Jackson  and  Union  Coun- 
ties when  they  were  noth  over- 
whelmingly Democrat  ii-  and  Dis- 
union. 

In  religion  Mr.  Whit  ■vie  is  and 
has    been     from    youth    an     oH-fash- 


ioned  Quaker,  and  such   he   undoubt- 
edly  will    remain   uniu   death. 

January  5th,  1844,  he  chose  for  a 
life  companion  Mary  Ann  Deming, 
who  was  5  3  days  his  senior,  having 
lieen  born  July  9,  1824,  and  he  on 
the  3  1st  day.  of  the  following  Aug- 
ust. They  have  had  four  sons  and 
four  daughters,  all  of  whom  still 
survive,  although  the  venerable 
couple   are    nearing    8fi. 

The  family  is  very  old,  long- 
lived  and  nume?ous.  They  now  num- 
ber in  the  United  States  between 
twelve  and  fifteen  hundre'.  It  can 
be  traced  back  more  than  five  gen- 
erations, over  two  hundred  years, 
and  Mr.  v,  nitacre  has  in  his  pos- 
session a  geneological  table  with 
every  branch  inscribed  up  to  date, 
showing  accurately  its  lineal  descent 
for  five  generations.  For  the  inter- 
est and  information  of  our  readers 
we  are  permitted  to  say  that  the 
family  is  reckoned  from  Jane  Park- 
er, of  London,  who  married  a  John 
Scott  and  removed  to  America  in 
1698.  Scott  died  leaving  no  heirs, 
and  his  wife  married  John  Whitacre, 
by  whom  she  gave  birth  to  two  sons, 
John  and  Robert,  through  whom  the 
family  in  America  count  their  de- 
scent. They  settled  in  Bucks  Co., 
Pa.  There  is  no  doubt  that  a  vast 
estate  numbering  up  into  the  hun- 
dreds of  millions  lies  awaiting  in  the 
Bank  of  England  the  slow  action  of 
the  courts,  and  will  ultimately  be 
divided  among  the  heirs  of  Jane 
Parker. 

Mr.  Whitacre  and  his  venerable 
spouse  live  happily  in  their  little 
cottage  at  Creal  Springs,  caring  lit- 
tle for  the  prospective  thousands 
awaiting  them.  They  settled  in 
Creal  Springs  in  1892,  and  have  re- 
mained there  looking  after  one  an- 
other, vigorous,  peaceful  and  happy. 
Their  sons  and  daughters  keep  a 
sharp  lookout  after  them,  but  they 
do  not  need  a  companion  or  helper, 
being  happier  alone. 

They  now  number  eight  children, 
twenty-seven  grand  children  and 
nine  great  grand  children.  The  fol- 
lowing are  the  names  and  residences 
of  the  children:  O.  B.  Whitacre, 
Crab  Orchard:  Dr.  H.  N.  Whitacre, 
Carbondale:  Ed  L.  Whitacre,  Vien- 
na: C.  D.  Whitacre,  Carterville:  Mrs. 
R.  B.  Thompson,  McKanda:  Mrs.  J. 
P.  Roberts,  Creal  Springs:  Mrs.  W. 
J.  Brown,  McKanda,  and  Mrs.  S.  S. 
Chamness,  Creal  Springs. 


DR.    JESSE    GREEN    LINDSEV 


Was  born  near  Bowling  Green, 
Ky.,  February  21,  1828.  While  an 
infant  he  came  with  his  parents  to 
Jackson  Co.,  111.,  where  the  greater 
portion  of  his  life  has  been  spent  on 
the  farm.  In  1856  he  began  the 
practice  of  medicine,  which  he  con- 
tinued until  failing  health  and 
strength    compelled    him    to    quit. 


SOL'\"EXIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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GEN.  JOHN  A.   LOGAN. 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


MRS.    JOHN   A.  LOGAN. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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THE   LATE  JOHN  A.  LOGAN.  JR. 


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SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY.  ILLLXOKS. 


MRS.   MARY  LOGAN  TUCKER 


SOUVENIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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In  1S92  he  sold  his  farm  and  went 
into  trade  at  Creal  Springs,  but  was 
burned  out  the  year  after,  December 
6,  1S93.  He  rebuilt  of  brick  on  the 
spot  where  Allis  &  Clark  now  run 
the  store  which  he  rented  to  them, 
and  quit  business,  his  health  and 
sight   falling   him. 

He  has  married  three  times.  His 
first  wife  was  Miss  Caroline  JIurphy, 
of  Randolph  County,  Illinois,  to 
whom  he  was  united  February  20, 
1S49.  She  bore  him  six  children, 
and  died  January  2,  1SS2.  Of  her 
children  but  two  survive,  William  R. 
Lindsey,  a  Hillright  Christian  min- 
ister, located  near  Pulleys  Mill,  and 
John  M.  Lindsey,  living  in  Missouri. 
His  second  wife  was  Mary  Jane  Mur- 
phy, to  whom  he  was  united  March 
1st,  1SS2.  She  had  no  children  and 
died  April  5,  1898.  July  27,  1S9S, 
he  married  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Grisham, 
widow  of  Henry  Grisham,  with 
whom  he  is  happily  spending  his  de- 
clining  years. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  but 
not  an  active  politician,  and  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  Resti- 
tution   Church. 


WILLIAM    B.    ELMORE 


Was  born  at  Woodbury,  Tenn., 
October  21,  18 28,  where  he  lived  un- 
til twelve  years  old.  April  1,  1840, 
he  came  with  his  parents  to  Union 
County,  Illinois,  where  he  married 
and  lived  until  May  6.  189G,  when 
he  moved  to  Creal  Springs,  where  he 
has  since  resided.  He  enlisted  Sep- 
tember 1,  1861,  In  the  31st  111.,  and 
was  wounded  at  Fort  Donelson.  He 
remained  with  Logan's  regiment  for 
three  years,  through  all  the  battles 
of  the  war  and  until  discharged  at 
Atlanta,    September    17,    1864. 

January  16,  1850,  he  was  united 
In  marriage  to  Miss  Sarah  Bar- 
rlnger,  of  Anna,  111.,  by  whom  he 
has  had  six  children,  all  living,  and 
now  proudly  reckons  twenty-five 
grand  children  and  fourteen  great 
grand  children.  He  is  a  Republican 
In  politics  and  a  member  of  the 
christian    Church. 

AVENUE   HOUSE. 

The  Avenue  House  at  Creal 
Springs  is  conducted  by  G.  B.  Boyd, 
proprietor,  has  fourteen  rooms  and 
its  rates  are  $1.50  a  day._  It  is  con- 
venient to  the  famous  mineral 
springs,  a  well-known  health  resort, 
and  accommodations  are  easily  se- 
cured  to   and   from   all    trains. 


ELIJAH  I.  CAMPBELL,  Pioneer, 

Is  one  of  the  oldest  pioneers  of 
the  County,  coming  here  with  his 
widowed  mother  in  November,  18  36. 
He  was  born  In  Smith  County,  Mid- 
dle Tennessee,  May  22,  1816,  and 
■spent    his   early   years   on   the   banks 


of  the  Cumberland  River,  where  he 
was  born.  He  was  but  18  years  old 
when  he  first  came  to  this  County  In 
1834,  but  he  cleared  the  land, 
opened  a  farm  and  soon  began  to 
raise  and  ship  tobacco.  He  made 
considerable  money  at  that,  but 
eventually  lost  it  all,  and  the  clos- 
ing years  of  his  life  are  spent  In  pov- 
erty, being  fed  and  cared  for  by  a 
widowei  daughter,  Mrs,  Louisa  M. 
Gunter,  his  only  remaining  child. 

After  gathering  his  first  crop  he 
returned  to  Tennessee  in  1836  and 
married  Eda  Jane  Wilmore,  with 
whom  he  lived  forty-nine  years,  with 
not  a  cross  word  between  them,  a 
rare  occurrence.  She  gave  birth  to 
four  children,  Susan,  Margaret, 
Burchett  and  Louisa,  and  died  In 
Stone  Fort  in  18  88,  Of  her  children 
Mrs,    Gunter   alone  survives. 


L.    A,    BICKERT,    Pioneer, 

Was  born  in  Wilson  County,  Mid- 
dle Tennessee,  May  ord,  1827,  He 
secured  what  little  education  he  re- 
ceived in  that  County,  and  came 
with  his  parents  In  1852  and  settled 
near  Stone  Fort,  Williamson  Co,, 
where  the  father,  Samuel  Bickert. 
died  at  the  age  of  75,  The  mother's 
name  was  Betsy  Morris,  In  the  w-in- 
ter  of  1852  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
came  to  Marion,  and  the  year  fol- 
lowing. October  2  6,  1853,  he  was 
married  to  Nancy  Scurlock,  the 
widow  of  Mr,  Bradley,  She  gave 
birth  to  four  children  and  died  In 
August,    1883, 

Mr.  Bickert  has  always  been  a 
farmer,  has  never  troubled  himself 
in  politics,  but  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Christian  Church  about  forty 
years.  He  and  a  widowei  daugh- 
ter, Mrs,  Lucy  Blackraan,  reside  at 
Creal  Springs  with  a  married  daugh- 
ter.  Mrs,   Ellen  Murray, 


OLIVER    COX, 
Justice  of  the  Peace. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  began 
life  as  a  farmer's  boy  In  Martin  Co., 
Indiana.     July      7th,     1S39.  The 

Wabash  runs  through  Martin  Coun- 
ty, and  the  struggles  of  those  early 
days  in  the  heavy  timber  of  the 
Wabash  Valley  with  mosquitos  and 
malaria  served  rather  to  emphasize 
his  natural  vigor  of  mind  and  body 
than  to  reduce  it.  His  father,  Isaac 
Cox.  was  also  a  woodsman,  who 
fought  during  the  whole  Civil  War. 
only  to  die  in  the  hospital  at  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  in  1865,  His  mother, 
Elizabeth  Cox  (nee  Johnson),  had 
preceded  the  father  to  the  "shadow 
land"   by   five  years. 

The  family  had  moved  to  this 
County  before  the  war.  and  Oliver 
enlisted  in  1862  in  Logan's  Division. 
Co.  H.,  Slst  111.  Baring  a  slight 
wound  received  at  Champion  Hill. 
Mississippi,  May  16,  1863,  he  served 


through  the  entire  struggle  without 
a  scratch.  After  the  fall  of  Atlanta 
he  returned  with  Logan's  division  to 
Nashville  and  was  mustered  out  at 
Chicago  August  5,  1865.  In  1872 
he  entered  into  the  ministry  of  the 
M.  E.  Church  and  traveled  six  years. 
His  first  pastorate  was  at  Harris- 
burg,  Saline  Co.,  and  all  his  subse- 
quent ministerial  labors  were  spent 
in  Saline  and  the  adjoining  coun- 
ties. 

September  1,  1855,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  H.  Morris, 
the  daughter  of  Benjamin  Morris, 
who  bore  him  twelve  children.  In 
1881  he  moved  with  his  family  to 
Howell  County,  Mo.,  where  he  lived 
for  se^en  years.  In  1884  he  ran  on 
the  Republican  ticket  for  the  Legis- 
lature, and  although  defeated  in  a 
district  with  a  normal  Democratic 
majority  of  300,  he  ran  ahead  of  his 
ticket    154    votes. 

In  1892  he  lost  his  voice  and  mov- 
ing back  to  Saline  County  he  gave  up 
the  ministry,  locate  1  and  resumed 
his  farm  life.  .\Ithough  he  served 
in  the  ranks  through  the  whole  con- 
test, he  was  promoted  to  Second 
Lieutenant  of  Co.  H  just  before  the 
close  of   18  65, 

Of  his  twelve  children  all  are 
living  but  Susan,  who  died  in  1874. 
Their  names  are  as  follows:  John 
Wesley,  Isaac  Dow,  William,  Frank- 
lin. James,  Oliver  E.,  Charles  A., 
Anda  M..  Elizabeth  A.,  Jane,  Alice 
and  Anna. 

He  is  a  staunch  Republican  in 
politics  and  has  served  continuously 
in  Crab  Orchard  Precinct  as  a  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace  since  his  first  elec- 
tion   In    1898. 


MRS.    MARY    E.    CHAMNESS. 


Mrs.  Mary  E.  Chamness.  whose 
extraordinary  skill  in  making  wax 
flowers  has  attracted  universal  at- 
tention, is  a  living  example  of  what 
native  talent  and  undaunted  perse- 
verence  can  accomplish  in  the  face 
of  the  greatest  discouragements  and 
difficulties.  The  beautiful  half-tone 
Illustration  of  her  marvelous  handi- 
work shown  here  faintly  exhibits 
her  amazing  skill  in  her  chosen  pro- 
fession. It  is  a  representation  of  the 
Savior's  tomb,  and  was  placed  on  ex- 
hibition in  the  St.  Louis  exposition 
of  1904.  The  motto  worked  in  wax 
flowers  over  the  entrance  to  the  tomb 
reads:  "I  know  that  my  Redeemer 
liveth."  Job  19:25.  Upon  the  floor 
of  the  tomb  are  the  words  of  Prov. 
18:10:  "The  name  of  the  Lord  Is  a 
strong  tower:  the  righteous  runneth 
into  it  and  are  safe." 

In  the  pursuit  of  this  exquisite 
art  Mrs.  Chamness  has  been  her  own 
instructor.  With  the  exception  of 
four  days'  instruction  by  an  Invalid 
friend,  Chloe  Mitchell.  Mrs.  Cham- 
ness  is   self   taught.        And    like   all 


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iiious  12Sth  111.,  and  Co.  G  was  af- 
leiwaicls  transfened  to  the  9th,  Col. 
Philips  coninianding,  and  served  dur- 
ini;  the  war.  He  was  disc-hargtd  at 
S|irin,gfleld    in    June,    1865. 

His  first  wife  was  Paulina  Sle- 
MiiK,  the  daughter  of  .John  Stevens, 
a  Tennesseean.  She  bore  him  six 
children  and  died  .January  8,  1  S92. 
His  second  wife  was  Mary  Ellen  La- 
.\Iaster,  to  whom  he  was  united 
March  10,  1895.  Her  parents  were 
(k'orge  W.  LaMaster  and  Matilda 
Perry.  In  politics  Mr.  Chamness  is 
an  ardent  Prohibitionist,  and  is  a 
niembei'  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
Church. 


J.   M.   MOUSER. 
General   Dealer,   Chamness. 


MR.   M.   E.   CHAMNESS  AND   HIS  WIFE,    MRS.     MARY    B.     CHAMNESS. 
Chamness,   Illinois. 


Born  September  21,  1SC7,  near 
Carterville,  III.  He  was  the  son  of 
Pinckney  Mouser  and  Amanda  J. 
Varner,  his  wife.  The  father  died 
.January  19,  1892,  but  the  mother 
si  ill  survives.  His  education  and 
1  raining  were  such  as  farmers'  boys 
usually  get  at  our  coiumon  schools, 
and  at  the  age  of  21  he  took  a  farm 
on  his  own  account  and  continued  in 
that  occupation  for  eight  years,  until 
his  marriage  in  189G.  He  then 
opened  a  General  Store  at  Chamness, 
which    he    still    occupies. 

He  was  married  May  12,  1896,  to 
Mary  Etta  Tucker,  the  daughter  of 
M.  M.  Tucker,  at  Murphysboro,  111. 
Five  children  are  the  fruit  of  this 
union,  of  whom  four  are  living. 
Their  names  in  the  order  of  their 
ages  are  Edith.  Lillle,  Lolla  and 
.Jewel.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics 
and  a  Modern  Woodman. 


geniuses  Mrs.  Chamness  has  been 
able  to  accomplish  what  no  other 
artist  was  previously  capable  of,  she 
discovered  how  to  make  wax  flowers 
permanent.  These  frail  objects  of 
exquisite  beauty,  as  coming  from  her 
artistic  hand,  are  practically  im- 
perishable. The  changes  of  climate 
and  temperature  experienced  in  our 
latitude  have  no  effect  on  them. 
"That  lovely  bank  of  flowers,"  said 
she,  "will  endure  without  change  a 
hundred  years  or  more.  They  will 
last  forever."  To  the  loving  appro- 
bation of  her  father  and  invalid  sis- 
tetr,  coupled  with  honest  words  of 
appreciation  from  a  wide  circle  of 
admiring  friends,  Mrs.  Chamness 
ascribes  whatever  of  success  she  has 
been  able  to  achieve  in  her  delightful 
avocation. 

The  measure  of  that  success  and 
the  labor  and  skill  required  in  bring- 
ing the  work  to  perfection  can  be 
faintly  realized  when  the  fact  is 
stated  that  she  has  always  worked 
with  the  crudest  material,  and  her 
hands  have  fashioned  everything,  be- 
ginning with  the  wax  in  the  hive 
and  the  simplest  and  crudest  of  im- 
plements.    Her  accounts  of  the  difB- 


culties  encountered  and  the  means 
she  used  to  surmount  them  is  a 
poetic  romance,  and  the  whole  is  a 
lesson  all  need  to  learn. 


MARSHALL   E.    CHAMNESS, 
Farmer. 

He  comes  of  North  Carolina 
Quaker  stock,  and  is  the  son  of 
Elder  W.  B.  Chamness,  who  was  ex- 
pelled by  his  Quaker  brethern  for 
having  married  out  of  the  faith,  and 
became  a  prominent  Baptist  preach- 
er and  did  good  service  to  the  cause 
he  loved  for  thirty  years.  He  died 
June  9,  1882.  His  wife  was  Sarah 
Krautz,  who  died  April  19.  1900. 
They  were  a  prolific  pair  and  raised 
nine  children,  eight  boys  and  one 
girl.  At  the  time  of  her  death  they 
had  nine  children,  ninety-five  grand 
children,  one  hundred  and  forty 
great  grand  children  and  three  great 
great   grand   children. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the 
seventh  son.  He  went  into  business 
for  himself  in  the  Spring  of  1862. 
married  the  9th  of  the  following 
February,  and  in  October  enlisted  in 
the  Union  army.     He  joined  the  fa- 


THE  ground  on  which  the  City  of 
Herrin  stands  was  first  owned 
liy  David  Herrin,  who  entered  a  tract 
of  60n  acres  from  the  government. 
After  the  death  of  his  wife  he  di- 
vided his  estate  among  his  heirs, 
with  the  exception  of  his  homestead 
of  120  acres,  which  he  afterwards 
sold  to  Samuel  Stotlar,  who  lived  on 
it  until  his  death.  Later  D.  R.  Har- 
rison bought  20  acres  of  the  heirs 
and  joined  Ephriam  Herrin  in  laying 
out  the  town.  Harrison's  tract  was 
the  north  half  of  the  northwest 
quarter  of  the  northeast  quarter  of 
Section  30:  and  Herrin's  land  was 
the  south  half  of  the  southwest  quar- 
ter of  the  southeast  quarter  of  Sec. 
19  Town  8.  Range  2  east,  having 
jointly  a  4  0-acre  tract.  It  was  first 
incorporated  as  a  village  with  Eph- 
riam Herrin  as  President  in  1S98. 
As  the  locality  was  known  as  "Her- 
rin's Prairie"  from  the  first  settle- 
ment by  David  Herrin,  the  name  of 
Herrin  naturally  fell  to  it  when  it 
became  a  village.  In  1900  the  vil- 
lage became  a  city  with  the  follow- 
ing officers:  Mayor,  C.  E.  Ingraham; 
Clerk,  P.  M.  Russell. 


SOUVFNIR  OF  WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


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WAX   FLOWERS    BY    MRS.    MARY    E.    CHAMXESS, 


Prior  to  incorporating  as  a  village 
Mr.  Harrison,  Mr.  Herrin  and  Mrs. 
Williams  bored  for  coal  and  struck  a 
nine-foot  vein  within  about  1-50  feet 
of  the  surface.  Of  course,  this  at 
once  settled  the  question  of  the  fu- 
ture prosperity  of  the  town,  and  it 
at  once  began  to  go  ahead  in  leaps 
and  bounds.  Within  three  years  the 
Chicago  and  Carbondale  railroad 
was  built  from  Johnson  City  to  Car- 
bondale, making  Herrin  on  the  way. 
The  St.  Louis  and  Big  Muddy  Coal 
and  Iron  Company  sunk  the  first 
shaft  for  coal  in  1.S9T.  This  was 
followed  in  1S99  by  the  Sunnyside, 
the  Chicago  and  Carterville  shafts, 
and  about  that  time  by  the  Alexan- 
der Brothers  mine.  Since  then  sev- 
en more  mines  have  been  opened 
within  a  radius  of  five  miles  of  the 
city.  The  Electric  Belt  Line  and  the 
Illinois  Central  both  run  into  it,  and 
several   more   roads   are   in   prospect. 

For  an  account  of  the  schools  of 
Herrin,  we  refer  to  the  article  on 
that  subject. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  offi- 
•cers  of  the  city  at  the  present  time: 

Mayor,  .John  Herrin:   Clerk,  Groce 


Lawrence:  Treasurer.  Harry  Fow- 
ler: City  Attorney,  Geo.  B.  White: 
Aldermen,  1st  Ward.  J.  R.  Walker, 
A.  E.  Spence:  2nd  Ward.  Louis  Bo- 
jonia,  Jerome  Childers:  3rd  Ward, 
Lon  Boren.  J.  N.  Thedford;  4th 
Ward,  G.  W.  Bradshaw.  C.  E.  Sny- 
der. 


HERRIX    POST   OFFICE. 


This  office  was  first  opened  as  a 
fourth  class  Star  Route  office,  with 
one  mail  a  day.  D.  R.  Harrison  was 
appointed  the  first  postmaster  and 
he  run  the  office  thirty-three  years 
and  ten  months,  consecutively  and 
was  succeeied  by  W.  A.  Stotlar  Feb- 
ruary 1,  1898.  Mr.  Harrison  located 
it  in  his  store  on  "Herrin's  Prairie" 
on  the  spot  where  the  Chicago  and 
Carterville  mine  now  stands.  On 
the  1st  of  April,  1902,  it  became  a 
presidential  office  with  salary  of 
.$1100  per  year.  In  1903  it  advanced 
to  $1200:  in  1904  to  $1400  and  on 
the  1st  of  July,  1905,  to  $1600  per 
year.  The  gross  receipts  the  past 
year,     from    April   1st   to    April   1st, 


were  $4 4 S 4.39:  domestic  money  or- 
ders for  the  year  $60,103.55;  for- 
eign money  orders  for  the  year  $33,- 
2  95.2  3.  Present  office  force,  Ameri- 
cus  Gassoway,  Postmaster;  Gus, 
Sizemore,    Assistant    Postmaster. 


CHRISTIAN  CHURCH  AT   HERRIN. 


The  religious  society  bearing  the 
above  name  (sometimes  called  also 
the  Disciple  Church  and  occasionally 
nicknamed  the  Campbellite  Church) 
was  organized  in  a  District  School 
House  at  Herrin  about  1864  or  '65 
l)y  Elder  Samuel  Wilson.  An  old 
Tennessee  preacher  by  the  name  of 
.Matthew  Wilson  followed  him  and 
served  the  society  acceptably  for 
several  years.  He  was  succeeded  by 
Wm.  L.  Crim,  of  West  Frankfort. 
These  were  all  able  and  faithful 
men,  and  the  society  grew  and  prds- 
pired  under  their  labors.  Sometime 
aliout  1867  they  erected  a  modest 
rliuich  house  which  they  occupied 
until  1898,  when  it  and  the  ground 
it  occupied  were  sold  for  a  school 
and  a  favorable  site  purchased  and 
the  present  neat  church  building  was 
erected  which  is  shown  in  our  il- 
lustration. It  stands  down  town  on 
the  east  side  of  Park  Avenue,  corner 
of  Maple,  and  has  a  seating  capacity 
of  about    400.      It   cost  about    $1500. 

The  following  persons  were  the 
original  members  of  the  old  church: 
.\ewton  Bradley,  Samuel  Stotlar, 
William  Williams.  George  Cox,  Na- 
than Cox,  Louisa  Williams,  Eliza 
Spillar,  Sarah  J.  Cox,  Eliza  Stotlar 
and    "Granny"    I^awrence, 


ELDER    DEMPSEY    A.    HUNTER, 
Pastor    of    the    Christian    Church 
Herrin,   Illinois. 


at 


The  subject  of  this  brief  sketch, 
whose  labors  in  the  ministry  have 
made  his  name  a  familiar  household 
word  over  half  a  dozen  or  more 
states  and  territories  in  the  West,  is 
a  native-born  Williamson  County 
product,  where  he  first  saw  the  light 
on  a  farm  near  Herrin.  His  father 
was  Allen  Hunter,  who  bought  the 
farm  when  his  son  was  one  year  old, 
and  where  he  lived  to  the  ripe  old 
age  of  83.  He  was  a  United  Baptist 
preacher,  preaching  the  Gospel  Sun- 
days and  working  his  farm  week 
days  for  upwards  of  fifty  years.  The 
son  followel  in  the  footsteps  of  the 
father,  remaining  on  the  farm  and 
in  the  local  schools  until  18  years 
old.  when  he  spent  a  year  in  the  Col- 
lege at  Enfield.  Two  years  at  Mc- 
Leansboro,  followed  by  two  more  at 
Enfield,  closed  his  school  days,  when 
he  turned  his  attention  to  teaching 
as  a  profession.  He  had  sand- 
wiched teaching  between  terms  at 
College  up  to  this  time,  but  from 
this  period  for  thirteen  years  he  did 
little  else. 

He  married  at  the  age  of  22,  while 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


Chaniness,   Illinois. 


at  Enfleld  the  second  time.  His 
wife's   name   was   Floi-ence   Garrison. 

He  first  joined  the  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  church,  with  which 
body  he  remained  until  26  years 
old.  At  the  age  of  26  he  joined  the 
Christian  Church  and  occasionally 
preached  for  them,  but  it  was  not 
until  he  was  33  that  he  laid  aside 
all  other  business  and  gave  himselt 
up  to  the  work  of  the  ministry.  He 
first  evangelized  in  Whfle  County 
for  three  years  and  then  spent  two 
years  in  Southern  Illinois  and  Ind- 
iana, when  he  took  a  pastorate  at 
Gurnee,  in  Lake  Couuty,  XortUern 
Illinois.  From  the  first  he  has  been 
active  and  successful  as  a  minister, 
laboring  and  traveling  extensively  in 
niinois,  Indiana,  Mis.^ouri,  Kansas, 
Nebraska,  South  Dakota  and  Okla- 
homa, but  whether  as  Evangelist  oi 
Missionary  or  setlle'l  as  p;istor  he 
was  iiiways  successful  and  welcome 
to  his  flock. 

The  following  are  the  principal 
places  where  he  has  labored:  On 
leaving  Gurnee,  where  he  spent  one 
year,  he  went  to  Lynnville,  Morgan 
County,  then  to  Princeton,  the  Coun- 
ty Seat  of  Bureau  Co.,  then  to  Kes- 
Kerlf  County,  la.,  where  he  served 
the  church  at  Delta  and  Sigourney 
for  four  years.  This  was  followed 
by  two  years  at  Laurens,  .-.  iien  he 
resigned  and  took  charge  of  the 
church  at  Jefferson,  Green  County, 
la.,  where  he  staid  for  seven  years, 
the  first  two  as  pastor  .md  the  bal- 
ance of  the  time  as  Evar.gelis',  pat 
of  the  time  under  the  direction  of 
the  Missionary  Board.  He  served 
the  church  at  Augusta,  Butler  Coun- 
ty, Kansas,  two  years,  then  to  Ga- 
lena, near  the  Southeast  corner  of 
the  state.  He  then  received  a  call 
to  serve  the  church  at  Herrin,  his  na- 


tive  town,   where   he   is   now   settled 
since   March,    1904. 

Mr.  Hunter  has  a  vigorous  and 
active  brain,  which  brooks  no  limit 
in  knowledge,  but  seeks  to  compass 
as  wi:!e  a  field  as  possible.  He  has 
studied  medicine,  psychology,  oste- 
opathy as  well  as  matters  of  general 
interest  and  utility  connected  with 
the  ministry.  He  has  never  prac- 
ticed medicine  as  a  profession,  and 
osteopathy  but  six  months,  filling  the 
pulpit  Sundays  meanwhile.  He  took 
his  degree  in  Psychology  from  Dr. 
Parkyn,  of  Chicago,  confining  his 
work  generally  to  the  ministry.  He 
at  one  time  took  some  interest  in 
Fraternal    Insurance    and    organized 


the  Order  of  Giant  Oaks,  now  con- 
solidated with  the  American  Guild 
at  Richmond,  Va.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Modern  Woodmen  and  A.  O. 
U.  W.,  besides  the  greater  orders  of 
Odd  Fellows,  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
Knights  Templar. 

He  has  three  sons  and  one  daugh- 
ter living  and  grown  to  maturity. 
His  eldest  son,  E.  E.  Hunter,  is  an 
electric  light  and  steam  engineer  at 
Oklahoma  City.  Oklahoma.  His 
second  son,  C.  R.  Hunter,  is  a  train 
dispatcher  at  Boone,  la.,  and  his 
third  son,  Marshall,  is  the  editor  and 
publisher  of  the  Herrin  Daily  Pro- 
moter. His  daughter,  Mildred 
Hunter,  lives  in  Joplin,  Mo. 
youngest  child,  Denipsey  Dale, 
of  diphtheria  last  December. 

Mr.  Hunter  comes  of  a  vigorous 
and  long-lived  stock  on  both  sides. 
His  mother,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Elizabeth  Lee,  of  the  Virginia 
family  of  Lee's,  is  still  living  on  the 
old  homestead  near  Herrin,  at  the 
advanced   age   of   84. 


Lee, 
His 
died 


ELDER  G.   W.   SYFBRT. 


Elder  G.  "W.  Syfert.  son  of  Nathan 
and  Mary  A.  Syfert,  was  born  in 
Shelby  County,  111.,  June  6.  l:s61. 
His  early  occupation  was  that  of  a 
miller,  at  which  he  worked  until  he 
entered  into  the  ministry  in  1S96. 
He  entered  Ewing  College  Novem- 
ber 1st,  IS96.  remaining  there  four 
years.  In  1901  he  came  to  Herrin, 
Illinois.  In  1901  he  had  the  honor 
of  baptizing  104  into  the  fellowship 
of  the  church,  that  being  the  great- 
est number  baptized  by  any  Baptist 
clergy  in  the  state  of  Illinois.  The 
work  has  continued  to  grow  until 
we  have  the  largest  membership  of 
any  church   in   this  part  of  Southern 


CHAMNESS    FLOURING    MILL. 


SOLiVIiNTR   Ol'    WIl.lJAAISON    COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


41 


RESIDENCE   OF  J.   M.    MOIISBR,   Chamness. 
Mis.   Mouser  and   Children    on    the    Porch. 


Illinois.  In  clo.sing  up  his  fourth 
years  work  here  as  pastor  he  has 
baptized  299  into  the  fellowship  of 
the  church,  received  149  by  letter 
and  at  present  the  membership  is 
543. 

His  wife  was  Laura  Jones,  of  Fay- 
ette County,  Illinois,  and  they  have 
one  child,  a  sou.  Walter.  He  is  an 
Odd  Fellow  and  a  member  of  the  U. 
M.   W.   of  A. 


REV.    JAMES   C.    BLIZZARD, 
Pastor  of  M.  E.  Church  at  Herrin. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  who 
has  a  far  wider  reputation  as  a 
teacher  than  as  a  preacher,  al- 
though he  ranks  high  in  both,  is  one 
of  the  native  products  of  Southern 
Illinois,  of  which  a  clientele  scat- 
tered far  and  wide  over  the  whole 
tFnited  States  justly  feel  proud. 
Hundreds  of  his  pupils  who  have  re- 
ceived their  training  in  his  efficient 
hands  and  have  taken  their  places  in 
almost  every  walk  of  life,  as  minis- 
ters, lawyers,  doctors,  teachers  or 
business  men,  rec^ftrd  him  with  un- 
diminished pride  and  affection 
through  the  lengthening  years  and 
the  slowly  silvering  of  theii-  heads. 
In  birth,  education,  training  and 
occupation  he  began  and  continues 
to  this  day  a  typical  "Egyptian"  of 
the  modern  geographical  school.  He 
was  born  near  Dudleyvil!°,  'id  Co., 
March  12,  1S52,  and  is  therefore 
comparatively  a  young  m:i:i  ^lill. 

He  was  the  son  of  Rev.  J.  J.  and 
Catharine  (McAdams)  Blizzard, 
themselves  native  lUinoisians.  Un- 
til 17  years  oia  he  followed  the  plow 
summers  and  went  to  the  "dees- 
trict"  school  winters.  He  was  sound- 
ly converted  at  that  time  and  want- 
ed to  enter  the  ministi-y,  but  cir- 
cumstances ordered  otherwise,  and 
he  devoted  about  thirty  years  to 
training  the  young,  and  his  life  has 
been   principally   spent    as   a    teacher. 


He  began  to  teach  in  1S71,  when 
but  19  years  old,  and  taught  con- 
tinuously until  1890,  a  period  of 
nineteen  years.  He  was  then  elect- 
ed Superintendent  of  Schools  for 
Bond  County  for  four  years.  He 
then  took  charge  of  the  Mt.  Vernon 
Business  College  for  four  years,  then 
as  Principal  of  Crab  Orchard  Acad- 
emy for  two  years.  Later  he  started 
a  business  college  at  Vienna,  but  the 
promisei  support  failing  him  it 
proved  unsuccessful  and  was  aban- 
doned  after   a    two   years'    struggle. 

Although  he  joined  the  church 
when  but  17  years  old,  he  did  not 
apply  to  the  conference  for  a  license 
to  preach  nor  enter  the  regular  min- 
istry   until    1902,    when    he    was    li- 


censed by  the  Mt.  Vernon  District 
Conference  of  the  M.  E.  Church, 
and  took  his  first  pastorate  in  190/2 
at  Carterville.  As  a  Sunday  School 
worker  he  has  had  few  equals  from 
his  youth  up.  He  has  been  remark- 
ably active  and  successful  in  all  de- 
partments of  the  work,  and  for  16 
consecutive  years  was  Superintend- 
ent of  the  Sunday  School  in  Bond 
County. 

He  has  never  been  very  active  in 
politics,  and  without  ambition  in 
that  field,  although  holding  at  vari- 
ous times  minor  offices,  principally 
connected   with   the  school. 

On  October  i,  1875,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Margaret  J. 
White,  daughter  of  Leander  and  Re- 
becca White,  both  old  settlers  ot 
Bond  County.  Three  children  have 
been  born  to  them,  all  of  whom  have 
reached  maturity  and  two  have  mar- 
ried. Their  names  are  Alvin  B. 
Blizzard,  of  Yellow  Pine,  La.;  Mrs. 
Effie  Stephenson,  wife  of  the  drug- 
gist at  Mt.  Vernon,  and  Miss  Nellie 
M.  Blizzard,  bookkeeper  and  ste- 
nographer for  Reed  and  North  Lum- 
ber Co.,  at  Carterville.  He  is  at  the 
present  pastor  of  the  M.  E.  Church 
at  Herrin. 


B.   BOLINGER, 

Superintendent    of     Herrin     Electric 

Light   and   Power    Co. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
the  son  of  Samuel  Bolinger,  a  native 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  Carolina  Nico- 
demus,  a  Maryland  lady.  The  elder 
Bolinger  came  to  Sulphur  Springs, 
Ohio,  in  an  early  day  and  married 
there.     His  son  was  boin  there  Nov. 


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MOUSER   &    DOERR'S   STORE,  Chamness,  111. 
The   Partners   and   Mrs.    Zack    Durham  and   her  Daughter  and   Miss  Mer- 
tie  Turnage   in   Front. 


42 


SUL'VENIR  0¥   W  II.I.I AMSoX    COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


11,  IMHi.  l>iil  was  laUi'ii  oy  His  pa- 
lenls  to  Van  Worl,  Ohio,  when  bin 
three  years  old  and  from  thence  to 
El  Paso,  111.,  when  nine.  After  the 
death  of  his  father  at  El  Paso  in 
ISSl,  at  the  age  of  (J7,  the  family 
moved  to  Berrin  Springs,  Mich., 
where  they  remained  for  13  years. 
The  mother  lived  to  be  71  and  died 
while  on  a  visit  in  Mobile,  Alabama. 
After  the  death  of  his  father, 
Bolinger  quit  the  farm  and  went  in- 
to the  grocery  business.  He  fol- 
lowed this  for  five  years  and  then 
took  up  carpenter  contracting  and 
building,  which  he  followed  for  four- 
teen years.  At  this  time  he  'lecame 
iuter^^^'ited  in  the  Electric-  L:g!u  busi- 
ness and  became  a  part  owner  with 
Fred  \V.  Richart  and  Chas.  B.  In- 
grahani.  Richart  having  a  half  in- 
terest and  the  others  each  a  quarter. 
He  is  the  Superintendent  and  de- 
votes his  entire  time  to  the  business. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and 
was  City  Treasurer  of  Herrin  in 
1900,  serving  one  year.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Mt.  Vernon,  ta.. 
Lodge,  No.  112,  A.  F.  &  A.  -M..  and 
Herrin  Lodge  430  I.  O.  O.  F.  He 
has   never    married. 


HERRIN    BOAlil)    OK    EUUCATIO.X. 


HERRIX     ELECTRIC      LIGHT    AND 
POWER    CO. 


This  promising  industry  was  in- 
corporated in  1900  with  a  capital  of 
$20,000.  Fred  W.  Richart  is  the 
President  and  General  Manager, 
Chas.  E.  Ingraham  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  and  B.  Bolinger,  Vice 
President  and  Superintendent.  These 
three  gentlemen  originated  the  busi- 
ness at  Herrin.  secured  a  broad  fran- 
chise, incorporated  the  company,  fur- 
nished the  necessary  capital  to  put 
the  business  on  its  feet,  own  all  the 
stock  and  do  all  the  work.  They 
are,  in  fact,  "the  whole  thing,"  and 
Herrin  would  find  it  troublesome  to 
get  along  without  them. 

They  furnish  arc  and  incandescent 
lamps  by  night  and  fans  and  motors 
by  day.  The  officers  are  a  wide- 
awake set  of  men,  and  fully  alive  to 
the  importance  of  being  up-to-date 
in  everything.  "Improvement  all 
along    the   line"    is   their   motto. 

The  building  of  the  plant  is  18x2S 
feet,  of  brick  with  metal  roof,  with 
a  wooden  extension  for  boilers  and 
other  machinery  and  coal  bins,  2Sx 
.")0  feet.  They  use  two  boilers  of  .50 
horse-power  each:  two  engines:  two 
dynamos  of  30  kilowats  each:  20 
arc  lights  of  the  enclosed  type,  1200 
candle-power  each:  .500  incandes- 
cent lamps.  The  whole  system  is 
operated  on  2  20  volts  direct  current 
on  six  miles  of  wire.  They  employ 
only  two  men  besides  Mr.  Bolinger. 
The  industry  is  being  extended  as 
rapidly,  as  the  growing  city  requires 
it.  and  improvements  are  projected 
which  will  double  the  power  in  the 
near   future. 


F.  Applegath,  President:  .lolui 
Herrin,  Clerk:  Geo.  ,1.  White,  Attor- 
ney: Dr.  H.  A.  Berry,  Board  ot 
Health:  Herman  Pardons,  Edward 
Summers,  R.  T.  Copeland. 

Herrin  is  fortunate  in  its  choice 
of  a  school  board,  securing  the 
active  oversight  and  control  In  the 
important  matter  of  its  public 
schools  of  a  board  who  are  quick  to 
perceive  its  needs  and  prompt  and 
liberal  to  the  legal  limit  of  taxation 
in  supplying  them.  The  late,  rapid 
and  almost  unparalelled  growth  ot 
the  city  iio  sooner  demanded  addi- 
tional school  privileges  than  the 
Board  set  about  the  erection  of  a 
new  school  building.  They  bought 
block  No.  1  of  Herrin's  fifth  addition 
in  the  second  ward  in  the  northwest 
part  of  the  city,  for  which  they  paid 
$10(111.  On  this  ideal  site  they  erect- 
ed the  past  season  a  substantial 
iMick  structure  of  two  stories  with 
four  rooms  in  each  floor,  capable  of 
accommodating    600    pupils. 

The  construction  was  begun  in 
May,  1904,  but  by  reason  of  delay  in 
securing  brick  they  were  unable  to 
finish  it  until  November  1st.  1905. 
The  contractor  was  Edward  Mullins. 
It  is  heated  with  steam,  with  the 
boilers  in  a  sub-basement  under  the 
north  half  of  the  building.  It  has 
slate  roof  and  is  finished  in  Georgia 
Pine,  hard  oil  finish.  The  plastering 
is  the  Acme,  with  a  white  coat  finish. 

The  last  school  census  shows  1100 
children  of  school  age  and  IS 3 4  un- 
der it,  showing  that  the  board  must 
immediately  provide  another  school 
Iniilding.  The  old  school  buildins 
is  filled  to  overflowing,  having  two 
teachers  in  its  primary  and  the  new 
school  has  210  pupils  in  one  room. 

The  following  is  the  present  rostei 
of  its  professors  anl  teachers  in  both 
schools: 

South  Side  School — Prof.  F.  G. 
Ferrill,  Supt.:  Principal  of  High 
School,  A.  T.  McKinney:  Sth  grade, 
Roscoe  Mifflin:  6th  grade,  Dora  Cly- 
niore:  4th  grade,  Maggie  Winning: 
:;rd  grade,  Lettie  Ozment:  2nd 
grade.  Mable  Dunaway:  primary. 
Gertrude    Simmons. 

North  Side  School — Principal,  W. 
G.  Ferges:  5th  grade,  Mr.  Whit- 
taker:  4th  grade.  Mrs.  .Tennie  Law- 
son:  3rd  grade.  Mr.  Fleming:  2nd 
grade,  Phoebe  Smith:  2nd  primary, 
Nannie  Kendall:  1st  primary.  Mattie 
Stocks    and    Ethel    Wilson. 

As  indicating  the  devotedness  and 
efficiency  of  the  present  board  of 
education,  it  may  be  noted  that  its 
members,  led  by  its  president,  whose 
enthusiasm  in  school  affairs  is  un- 
bounded, already  have  well  in  hand 
location  and  plans  for  another  school 
house,  which  will  be  pushed  to  com- 
pletion as  soon  as  a  tax  levy  for 
that  purpose  can  be  legally  laid. 
And  in  addition  to  that  the  president 


(it  llie  Board  is  not  only  committed, 
but  enthusiastically  devoted  to  erect- 
ing a  High  School,  an  up-to-date 
building,  in  the  near  future,  which 
will  give  ample  accommodations  to 
that  class  of  pupils  for  some  years 
to  come.  He  will  doubtless  find  In 
the  other  members  hearty  support, 
and  the  city  can  confidently  count 
on  it  as  soon  as  it  can  legally  be 
reached. 


THE    FIRST    NATIONAL    BA.NK    OF 
HERRIN. 

This  bank  was  the  pioneer  bank  of 
the  city.  It  was  run  as  a  private 
bank  by  D.  R.  Harrison  from  1895 
to  1S99,  and  on  April  1,  1900,  in- 
corporated under  its  present  char- 
ter with  $25,000  capital  stock,  which 
has  since  been  increased  to  $50,- 
00(1.  Its  officers  are  D.  R.  Harrison, 
president:  Ephraim  Herrin,  vice 
president:  .lohn  Herrin,  cashier: 
Henry  LaMaster,  assistant  cashier: 
Cot  a  Herrin,  bookkeeper:  D.  R.  Har- 
rison, Eph.  Herrin.  Geo.  H.  Harri- 
son, Ed  Elles  and  ,1.  D.  Peters,  di- 
rectors. 

The  following  is  its  last  state- 
ment : 

Report  of  the  condition  of  The 
First  National  Bank  of  Herrin.  at 
Herrin,  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  at 
the  close  of  business  March  14, 
1 9  0  5  : 

Resources. 
Loans   and   discounts    ...$24910(5    S7 
Overdrafts,    secured    and 

unsecured     525    68 

U.     S.     Bonds     to    secure 

circulation     50000    00 

Premiums  on  U  S  Bonds  2  4  75  00 
Stocks,  securities,  etc...  13725-00 
Banking  house,  furniture 

and   fixtures 9(M10    00 

Due   from      Nat'l.    Banks 

(not    Reserve    Agents)  14    12 

Due    from     approved    re- 
served agents    .  .     .  .       937oS    92 
Checks    and    other    cash 

items     144    73 

Notes   on    other   National 

banks 145    ou 

Fiac'tional      paper        cur- 
rency,     nickels     and 

cents     120    27 

Lawful     .Money      Reserve 

in    Bank,   viz 
Specie     ..     .  .     $11003    15 
Lgl.    T.    Notes      8S90    00      19893    15 
Redemption  fund  with  U 
S  Treas.   (5  per  cent 
of  circulation)    ..    ..        2500    00 


Total    $441415    28 

liiabiliti«>s. 

Capital   stock   paid   in    ..$    .'OdOO    00 

Surplus    fund     Kiooo    0(i 

Un'iivided  profits,  less 
expenses  and  taxes 
paid 276S    79 

National  BanI;  notes  out- 
standing           50000    00 

Dividends    unpaid     .  .     .  .  300    00 


SOUVENIR  OF  WlLLiAMSOX    COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


4a 


Individual  deposits  sub- 
ject to  check 20!i21O    31 

Time  ceitificales  of  de- 
posit     i2iii:;(;  IS 

Total ?44l4i:.   -IS 

STATE  OF  Ii>LIXOIS, 
County  of  Williamson. 
I.  John  Heri-in,  cashier  of  the 
above  named  bank,  do  solemnly 
swear  that  the  above  statement  is 
true  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge 
and  belief.  .lOHX  HERRIX, 

Cashier. 
Subscribed    and      sworn    to    before 
me  this  2Mth  day  of  March,   1905. 
W.  A.  STOTLAR.  .Notary  Public. 
Correct — Attest: 

EPHRAIM    HERRIX. 

ED   A.    ELLES, 

GEO.    H.    HARRISOX, 

Directors. 


Ira.    Benjamin    Wardt 
Fern. 


GEORGE    H.    HARRISOX. 


DAXIEL    PERUIXE 

Was  born  August  2,  I.Sol,  in  Jler- 
cer  County.  Pa.,  where  he  remained 
on  a  farm  with  his  parents  until  2  4 
years  old.  He  comes  of  a  vigorous 
and  long-lived  family,  his  father, 
Enoch  Perrine,  dying  at  the  age  of 
86,  and  his  mother  at  85.  He  came 
to  this  County  April  1,  1856.  and 
the  year  following,  on  December  lU, 
married  Susan  Reeves,  daughter  of 
James  Reeves,  by  whom  he  had 
three  children,  of  whom  two  are 
now    living. 

He  enlisted  August.  1862.  in  the 
81st  Illinois,  served  at  the  Siege  of 
Vicksburg,  was  taken  prisoner  at  the 
battle  of  Gemtown,  Miss.,  and  was 
taken  to  the  infamous  prison-pen  of 
Andersonville.  where  he  languished 
for  six  months,  until  the  victorious 
Sherman  released  them.  He  was 
mustered  out  after  three  years  of 
service  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  in  Aug- 
ust, 1865.  In  politics  he  has  always 
been  a  Republican,  and  voted  that 
ticket  when  there  were  but  7  5  votes 
of   that   party  cast  in   the  County. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  first  Re- 
publican convention  ever  held  in  the 
County.  It  was  called  in  1860  and 
convened  in  the  basement  of  the  old 
Presbyterian  church  erected  by  the 
pastor,  N.  C.  Hunt. 


G.  B.  RUSSELL. 
Photographer. 


G.  B.  Russell  was  born  .May  9. 
ISTO,  in  Johnson  County.  Mo.  He 
was  brought  up  a  farmer's  boy  and 
received  only  a  common  school  edu- 
cation. About  ten  years  ago  he  took 
up  the  photographic  business,  first 
at  Creal  Springs,  but  in  October. 
1899,  he  came  to  Herrin  and  opened 
a  studio,  where  he  still  remains,  the 
leading  photographer  of  the  district. 
His  wife  was  Maggie  Eaton,  of  the 
Tygett  settlement,  to  whom  he  was 
married  September  4,  1892.  Three 
children  are  the  fruits  of  this  union. 


George  H.  Harrison,  pioprietor  of 
.Mulberry  Hill  Stock  Farm,  dealer 
in  jacks  and  mules,  shorthorned  cat- 
tle and  Poland  China  hogs,  is  the 
son  of  D.  R.  Harrison,  president  of 
the  First  Xational  Bank  and  a  na- 
tive product  of  the  town.  He  was 
born  on  Herrin's  Prairie  December 
14.  1S61.  .\t  the  age  of  18  he  left 
school  and  spent  two  and  one-half 
years  at  Shurtleff  College,  when  he 
returned  home  and  has  since  turned 
his  attention  to  the  rearing  and  sale 
of  choice  stock.  When  21  his  father 
gave  him  120  acres  of  land  just  out 
of  town,  known  as  the  Bradley  es- 
tate. He  has  since  added  160  acres 
more,  making  280  of  the  best  land 
in   the  County. 

On  Xovember  27,  ls92.  he  was 
united  in  marriage  with  iliss  Laura 
Blankenship,  of  Marion.  They  have 
four  children,  three  boys  and  one 
girl.  Both  himself  and  wife  are 
members  of  the  Missionary  Baptist 
Church  of  Herrin.  He  is  a  Democrat 
politically,  and  a  member  of  the  .\. 
F.   &  A.   M. 


D.   R.    HARRISOX. 


D.  R.  Harrison,  president  of  the 
First  Xational  Bank  of  Herrin,  was 
born  October  loth,  1834,  on  the  old 
David  Herrin  homestead,  and  has 
lived  there  almost  continuously  ever 
since.  His  father  was  George  H. 
Harrison  and  his  mother  Delilah  P. 
Herrin.  His  father  died  January  12, 
1848,  but  his  mother  survived  until 
March  28,  1899,  dying  at  the  age  of 
84.  His  only  sister,  Mrs.  Louisa 
Williams,  died  lately  at  the  age  of 
6  9    years. 

He  was  a  farmer  b.v  occupation, 
training,  and  preference,  and  fol- 
lowed it  until  about  1860.  when  he 
opened  a  general  merchandise  store 
at  Herrin,  in  company  with  his  un- 
cle. Oliver  Herrin.  In  1895  he  add- 
ed the  business  of  private  banking  to 
his  farms  and  merchandise,  and  kept 
up  the  combination  until  1899.  The 
private  bank  was  continued  until  it 
was  merged  into  the  First  Xational 
Bank  of  Herrin  in  April,  1900,  when 
he  became  its  president. 

He  was  a  merchant  for  41  years, 
and  when  the  Postoffice  was  estab- 
lished at  Herrin,  he  furnished  it 
room  free  gratis,  and  was  appointed 
the  first  postmaster,  holding  the  of- 
fice continuously  for  3  3  years  and 
ten  months,  until  Mr.  Stotlar  took 
it.  He  was  Township  and  School 
Treasurer  for  14  years  and  Xotary 
Public  for   36. 

When  fifteen  years  old  he  united 
with  the  Missionary  Baptist  Church 
and  has  been  active  and  useful  in 
its    ranks   ever   since.        He   was   ap- 


pointed first  clerk  at  its  organiza- 
tion, and  has  served  in  that  capacity 
up  to  the  present  time,  for  about  40 
years.  His  church  records  do  not 
show  a  single  entry  except  in  his 
own  hand-writing. 

His  first  wife  was  .Miss  Julia  A. 
Walker,  the  daughter  of  .Matthew 
Walker  and  Hester  More,  his  wife. 
They  were  married  January  10, 
1861,  and  have  had  five  children,  of 
whom  one  died  in  infancy.  Their 
names  are  George  H.,  the  eldest; 
Annabel,  wife  of  E.  E.  Mitchell, 
cashier  of  the  First  Xational  Bank 
of  Carbondale;  Albert  M.,  a  dentist 
in  Rockford,  Illinois,  and  Luella, 
wife  of  J.  C.  Hundley,  of  Carbondale. 
His  wife  died  July  9,  1874,  at  the 
age  of  38,  and  on  the  18th  day  of 
Xovember,  five  years  later,  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  H.  Backus,  the  widow 
of    .\ndrew    Backus.  Her    maiden 

name  was  Fellows.  She  was  born 
.March  28.  1839.  and  died  .March  m, 
1899. 

Mr.  Harrison  hasn't  a  grey  hair  in 
his  head,  is  straight  as  an  arrow, 
prompt  and  sprightly  in  action, 
blood  pure  and  head  clear.  Al- 
though he  has  already  passed  the  al- 
lotted three  score  and  ten,  he  bids 
fair  to  abide  many  years  longer.  He 
is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a  32- 
degree    Mason. 


EPHRAI.M   HERRIX. 


The  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  Jackson  Herrin,  son  of 
David  Herrin,  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers on  the  prairie  to  which  he  af- 
terwards gave  his  name.  He  en- 
tered a  tract  of  600  acres  from  the 
government  and  laid  the  foundation 
for  the  prosperity  of  his  family  and 
later  for  the  town  which  bears  his 
name.  Jackson  died  in  July.  1901, 
at  the  age  of  So.  His  wife,  who  was 
Olive  Spiller,  died  in  1845,  after 
giving  birth  to  four  children.  After 
her  death  he  married  Xarcissa  Reed, 
by  whom  he  also  had  four  children. 
She  lived  to  the  age  of  75. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the 
son  of  the  first  wife,  and  was  born 
on  Herrin's  Prairie  Oct.  IS.  1S43. 
He  was  always  a  farmer  and  stock 
raiser,  and  is  so  yet.  interspersed 
with  real  estate  and  banking.  He 
has  been  prominent  and  active  in  the 
establishment  and  development  of 
his  town  of  which  we  speak  more 
particularly  in  .giving  a  history  of 
the  town  itself.  When  the  Civil  War 
broke  out  he  responded  by  enlisting 
in  the  12Sth  111.,  Co.  D,  August  10, 
1862.  Upon  the  dissolution  of  that 
unfortunate  regiment  he  was  with 
many  others  transferred  to  the  9th, 
of  which  Sam  Hughes  was  Colonel 
when  it  was  organized.  His  first 
smell  of  powder  was  at  Snake  Creek, 
below  Chattanooga.  He  afterwards 
accompanied  Sherman  in  his  famous 
march    "from    Atlanta    to    the    Sea," 


44 


SOU\'ENlR  OF   WILLI. \.\IS().\   COUNTY,   ILLLXOIS. 


PHILIP   N.    LEWIS, 
Cashier   Herrin   State   Savings  Banl; 


Herrin.  Illinois. 


and  was  mustered  out  at  Springfieli 
July  9th,  1865.  He  returned  to  his 
home  and  four  years  later,  May  G, 
1S69,  married  Fatima  Brown,  the 
daughter  of  John  Brown,  hy  whom 
he  has  had  six  children,  three  boys 
and  three  girls.  The  three  sons  and 
one  daughter  are  living.  Their 
names  are  John,  the  eldest',  cashier 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Her- 
rin: Mark  H.,  engaged  in  stock  rais- 
ing and  dealing  at  Herrin;  Jefferson, 
a  butcher  at  Herrin,  and  Cora,  the 
bookkeeper    for    the    bank. 


THOMAS   STOTLAR, 


President  of  Herrin's  State  and  Sav- 
in.gs  Bank. 


The  Stotlar  family,  one  of  the  old- 
est and  most  substantial  families  of 
the  County,  are  of  German  origin 
and  date  back  in  this  country  to 
Jacob  Stotlar,  who  in  an  early  day 
came  from  Germany  to  Pennsylvania 
and  was  killed  by  the  Indians.  His 
son,  Joseph  Stotlar,  who  was  a 
scout  in  the  war  of  1S12  rnd  was 
present  at  the  surrender  of  t>en. 
Hull,  settled  near  Winchester, 
Adams  County,  Ohio,  is  son,  Sam- 
uel, was  born  in  Adams  Co.  in  1S13 
and  died  in  tS76  at  the  age  of  62. 
His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  Thomas, 
was  born  in  ISIS  and  died  in  189 3 
at  tlje  age  of  77,  on  the  old  Samuel 
Stotlar    homestead    in    Herrin. 

The  subject  of  'this  sketch  was 
born  near  Branfort.  Highland  Co., 
Ohio,  March  9.  1840.  He  moved 
with    his    father's    family    to    Herrin, 


where  he  drove  his  stakes  and 
spread  his  tent  November  27,  18-50. 
His  schooling  was  limited  to  the 
common  schools  of  the  town,  supple- 
mented  with  three  terras  at  the  old 
college  ar  Carbondale.  under  the 
tuition  of  Clark  Braden.  He  began 
teaching  in  ISGO,  but  after  teach- 
ing one  term  the  Civil  War  broke 
out  and  he  enlisted  in  the  9th  111., 
Co.  G,  being  sworn  in  at  Cairo  Aug- 
ust 11,  1S61.  His  first  commander 
was  Col.  Payne,  with  Mercer  as 
Lieut. -Col.,  who  became  Colonel  on 
the  promotion  of  Payne  to  Brigadier 
General,  and  when  Mercer  became  in 
turn  Brigadier,  Jesse  J.  Philips  be- 
came Colonel  and  afterwards  Brig- 
adier, to  be  followed  by  Col.  Hughes, 
the  last  of  the  list  of  fighting  col 
onels,  and  before  the  war  closed,  all 
but  Hughes  became  generals,  and  hi 
would  have  been  but  for  the  close 
of   the   war. 

The  brave  9th  served  at  Forts 
Henry  and  Donaldson,  going  with 
Grant  to  Shiloh,  where  Thomas  had 
his  left  arm  shot  in  two  and  went  to 
the  hospital  at  Mound  City  for  a 
while.  His  father  came  for  him  at 
the  hospital  and  took  him  home, 
where  he  staid  till  the  last  of  Aug- 
ust. 1862.  He  then  returned  to 
Mound  City  and  remained  up  to 
September  16,  when  he  started  back 
to  his  regiment.  He  only  got  as 
far  as  Cairo  when  he  was  discharged 
on  account  of  his  wound,  which  was 
still  troubling  him.  He  then  re- 
turned to  his  home  at  Herrin  and 
the   cornfield. 

On  the  14th  day  of  July,  1SG9.  he 


was  married  to  Miss  Louisa  Cox, 
daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  Jane 
Cox,  of  German  parentage,  and  na- 
tives of  North  Carolina  and  Mis- 
sissippi. She  died  February  la, 
19(tl,  having  given  birth  to  three 
children,  Edwin  N.,  manager  of  the 
lumber  business  in  Marion,  Norah, 
the  wife  -'f  Dr.  Ford  at  Herrin  and 
Leroy  A.,  who  died  at  home  in  April, 
1905.  After  a  little  more  than  two 
years  from  his  wife's  death,  Decem- 
ber 15,  1903,  Mr.  Stotlar  married 
his  present  wife,  who  was  Florence 
Brown,  the  daughter  of  John  Brown, 
of  near  Herrin. 

In  1903  Mr.  Stotlar  heli)ed  to  or- 
ganize the  present  Stotlar— Herrin 
Lumber  Company,  and  became  its 
first  vice  ))resident.  A  year  later  he 
assisted  in  the  organization  of  the 
State-Savings  Bank  and  was  elected 
its  president.  He  also  owns  stoclv 
in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Ma- 
rion and  is  a  director  and  a  stock- 
holder in  the  Williamson  County 
Bank  of  Marion.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Christian  Church  of 
Herrin  for  36  years,  and  an  elder  for 
about  10.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics. 


P.    N.    LEWIS. 

Cashier   of    the    Herrin    State-Savings 

Bank. 

Philip  N.  Lewis,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  on  a  farm  sev- 
en miles  south  of  Marion,  William- 
son, County.  lUinQis.  January  29, 
1S7().  On  this  farm  was  what  was 
known  to  most  of  the  early  settlers 
as  the  Ward  Flat  or  Race  Track,  a 
level  tract  of  land  a  half  mile  long, 
lying  one  mile  south  of  Wards  Mill, 
the    old     water    mill     on    the     Saline 


.    A.    LAl'DER.    P.    M. 
Carterville,    Illinois. 


SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


45 


Creek  owned  by  old  Dick  Ward, 
and  at  which  all  the  settlers  for  a 
radius  of  forty  miles  got  their  corn 
ground   into   meal. 

Philip  is  the  second  son  of  D.  M. 
and  Harriet  Lewis,  and  one  of  thir- 
teen children,  twelve  of  whom  lived 
to  be  grown,  and  ten  of  whom  are 
still  living.  His  father,  commonly 
known  as  "Dan"  Lewis,  was  one  of 
the  oldest  citizens,  he  himself  being 
born  and  raised  in  this  same  neigh- 
borhood, and  living  there  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  a  few  years 
ago  at  the  age  of  73.  He  kept  the 
Wards  Mill  Post  Office  for  iifteen  or 
twenty  years  for  the  accommodation 
of  his  neighbors,  and  was  always 
known  as  a  man  of  strictest  integrity 
and  honest  dealings  with  his  fellow- 
men.  He  was  never  a  party  to  any 
litigation,  and  was  never  accused  of 
violating  the  laws   of   the  countiy. 

Harriet  Lewis  was  the  eldest  child 
of  William  C.  Cash  and  Finney  Cash, 
who  came  to  Hlinois  in  an  early  day 
from  Kentucky.  She  was  a  woman 
of  extraordinary  intelligence,  strong 
religious  convictions,  gentle  and  pa- 
tient disposition,  and  that  beautiful 
womanly  character  that  won  the 
hearts  of  all  she  met  and  attached 
them  to  herself  as  lifelong  friends. 
From  parents  such  as  these  i  nuip 
inherited  those  traits  of  character 
that  have  enabled  him  to  achieve 
success  in  all  he  has  undertaken, 
and  command  the  esteern  and  confi- 
dence of  all  good  men. 

He  helped  his  father  on  the  farm 
until  the  age  of  seventeen,  when  he 
started  out  into  the  world  to  fight 
life's  battles  for  himself.'  His  pa- 
rents were  always  great  readers,  and 
from  this  Philip  early  acquired  a 
love  for  newspapers  an  I  good  books, 
so  that  while  the  other  men  where 
he  worked  spent  their  noon  hours 
and  other  spare  time  at  cards,  mar- 
bles and  other  sports,  he  invariably 
occu|)ied  himself  with  a  good  paper 
or  a  good  book.  Having  acquired  a 
very  fair  common  school  education, 
at  nineteen  he  found  himself  em- 
ployed to  teach  a  country  school. 
By  teaching  and  going  to  school  al- 
ternately he  was  soon  able  to  hold 
the  prinripalship  of  the  Carterville 
schools.  l,S94-9."i.  Leaving  the  Car- 
terville schools  he  again  entered  col- 
lege, graduating  in  the  fall  of  '9G. 
After  graduation  he  went  to  West- 
ern Iowa,  where  in  company  with 
Barney  Ferrell  he  was  employed  as 
principal  of  the  Castana  (Iowa) 
Normal  School,  which  was  just  be- 
in.g  organized  at  that  place.  He  con- 
ducted this  school  for  five  years, 
when  failing  health  necessitated  his 
taking  up  some  out-door  occupation. 
Resigning  his  position  in  ine  Nor- 
mal, he  took  up  real  estate  worl;, 
handling  farm  lands  in  Iowa,  Ne- 
iH-aska  and  the  Dakotas  He  had 
long  been  desirous  of  engaging  in 
tl-H   I'iinldng   brisini'ss.   iMit    was  com- 


pelled to  wait  uutil  he  could  earn 
the  necessary  laoney  dirough  his 
own  efforts.  Two  years  of  success- 
ful real  estate  work,  however,  not 
only  restored  his  health,  but  gave 
him  sutficient  funds  to  take  up  his 
cherished  work.  After  looking  over 
several  cities  in  Colorado,  California, 
Oregon  and  Washington,  he  decided 
to  come  back  to  v\  illiamson  County. 
Illinois,  and  start  a  bank  at  Herrin. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Hei-rin  State-Savings  Bank,  of 
which  he  is  now  Cashier.  He  first 
superintended  the  erection  of  the 
new  bank  building,  which  is  admit- 
ted to  be  the  finest  brick  structure 
in  the  County. 

Mr.  Lewis  was  married  on  Octo- 
ber 2G,  1903,  to  Miss  Ethel  G.  Put- 
nam, the  daughter  of  a  wealthy 
farmer  and  stockraiser  of  Western 
Iowa.  She  is  a  very  successful 
; eacher.  a  talented  musician,  and 
possesses  many  rare  traits  of  noble 
woiuanhood. 

Mr.  Lewis  is  a  Democrat  political- 
ly, but  is  not  a  member  of  any 
church.  He  is  an  earnest  advocate 
of  justice  and  right  living,  and  the 
highest  standard  of  morals  among 
men  and  women.  With  "conserva- 
tism and  courteousness"  as  his 
watchword,  the  Herrin  State-Savings 
Bank  promises  to  be  one  of  the  fore- 
most financial  institutions  of  the 
County. 


W.    N.    STOTLAR. 


President  of  the  Stotlar-Herrin 
Lumber  Company  and  Vice  Presi- 
dent of  the  Herrin  State-Savings 
Bank,  was  born  June  12,  1S57,  in 
Dayton,  Ohio.  He  is  the  fifth  child 
of  Sanuiel  Stotlar,  and  was  reared 
on  the  Stotlar  Homestead  at  Herrin. 
Like  the  most  of  farm  boys  his  edu- 
cation was  only  such  as  can  be  ac- 
quired at  our  common  schools,  and 
he  very  early  began  to  devote  his  at- 
tention to  the  rearing  and  buying 
an-l  selling  of  live  stock,  mostly 
horned  cattle.  He  was  a  success  at 
this,  and  followed  it  until  he  went 
into  the  lumber  business  about  the 
time  the  town  was  laid  out.  For  the 
first  four  years  he  ran  the  business 
alone,  when  the  present  Stotlar- 
Herrin  Company  was  incorporated, 
and  he  hecame  its  president.  He 
was  made  Vice  President  of  the  Her- 
rin State-Savings  Bank  at  its  organ- 
ization. His  wife  was  Miss  Sarah 
Cox.  the  daughter  of  George  Cox,  of 
Williamson  County,  and  .Tane  Cox. 
his  wife.  They  were  married  Oct. 
14,  1S7fi,  and  have  one  child.  Ruby, 
the   wife    of    Paul    Herrin. 

E.   N.   DILLARD, 

Vice    President    Herrin    State-Savings 

Bank,   Herrin.   111. 


17,  1S46.  His  life  has  been  spent 
in  farming  and  stock  raising  and 
dealing  until  in  February,  1904, 
when  he  moved  into  Herrin.  Since 
then  he  took  an  interest  in  the  new 
State-Savings  Bank  and  has  been 
busy  building  and  renting  houses 
and  general  management  of  his 
property  interests.  His  father,  J. 
J.  Dillard,  lived  to  the  advanced  age 
of  8  3,  but  his  mother,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Lydia  Roberts,  died  in 
1SG2,   at   the   age   of    42. 

He  was  married  October  1,  1SG7, 
to  Elizabeth  Mannering,  by  whom  he 
has  had  seven  children.  The  names 
of  the  living  are  James  J.,  Marshall, 
(ieorge,  Monte,  Clarence  N.,  and 
Raleigh.  He  is  not  a  politician,  but 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Christian 
Church    since    1.SG2. 


ROBERT   R.   STOTLAR. 


Assistant  Cashier  of  the  Herrin 
Slate-Savings  Bank,  is  the  son  of  H. 
M.  Stotlar  and  Miss  E.  C.  Spiller,  his 
wife.  He  was  born  and  reared  in 
Herrin.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
first  class  in  Herrin  High  School,  at- 
tended the  Southern  Illinois  Normal 
at  Carbondale  in  1S92,  where  he 
took  a  special  course  in  mathematics 
and  the  sciences.  He  was  with  the 
Standard  Oil  Co.  from  March  to 
SeiJl ember,  190  4,  and  took  his  pres- 
ent position  in  the  Herrin  State- 
Savings   Bank    Ajiril    17.    190.5. 


E.   N.   Dillard   was  liorn   on   Pope's 
Prairie,    Franklin    Co.,    Til..    October 


DR.   W.    H.    FORD 

Was  born  March  10,  1S7S,  about 
five  miles  southeast  of  Carbondale, 
Jackson  County,  Illinois.  He  is  the 
oldest  son  of  W.  N.  and  Amanda 
Jane  Ford,  both  of  whom  are  still 
living  and  reside  in  Herrin,  his 
father  being  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent real  estate  men  of  the  County. 
He  moved  to  Herrin  in  the  Fall  of 
189S,  when  the  now  beautiful  city 
of  Herrin  was  but  a  small  villa.ge  of 
three  or  four  hundred  people,  and 
has  since  been  identified  as  one  of 
the  most  earnest  workers  for  the 
up-building  of  Herrin  and  the  Coun- 
ly  in  general. 

The  boyhood  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Ford 
was  spent  on  a  faim  in  Jackson  Co.. 
near  Makanda,  where  he  helped  his 
father  farm  until  the  Fall  of  1895, 
when  he  entered  a  medical  college 
It  St.  Louis,  Mo.  He  pursued  the 
stu  'y  of  medicine  until  the  10th  of 
March,  1S9S,  at  which  time  he  grad- 
uated, receiving  the  degree  of  Doc- 
tor of  Medicine.  He  immediately 
came  to  Herrin,  established  a  Drug 
Store  and  be,gan  the  practice  of  his 
profession. 

On  the  10th  of  January.  1900.  he 
was  married  to  Nora  Stotlar,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Louisa  Stotlar, 
and  immediately  after  his  marria.ge 
he  established  him  a  comfortable 
home   in    Herrin.    where   he   still     re- 


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SOUVENIR  OF   WILLIAMSON   COUNTY,   ILLLNOIS. 


sides.  He  is  one  of  the  ilirettois  of 
the  Herrin  State  and  Savings  Bank, 
and  has  idenlified  himself  as  one  of 
the  substaiuial  ciiizeiis  of  ihe 
County. 


BAXK    OF    .lOHXSOX    CITY. 

Banlv  of  .Johnson  City,  Williamson 
County,  Illinois,  was  organized  by  .1. 
S.  Lewis  and  M.  Oznient  in  1901, 
with  a  cash  capital  of  $10,000  and 
individual  responsibility  between 
$7r,,000  and  $100,000,  opening  their 
doors  for  business  in  a  small  frame 
building  .July  26,  1901.  Business 
started  with  great  promise,  the  first 
day's  deposits  being  $1224.12,  which 
has  now  reached  the  neat  siiiii  of 
$57,000.00,  and  is  gradually  in- 
creasing. 

On  the  7th  day  of  Xoveniber. 
190:J,  the  bank  moved  into  its  own 
home,  a  substantial  brick  and  stone 
builiing  of  two  stories,  erected  at  a 
cost  of  nearly  $10,000,  and  fur- 
nished with  the  latest  banking  con- 
veniences in  the  way  of  vault  and 
furniture.  Mr.  Ozment  is  shown  in 
the  picture,  at  the  '  Cashier's  win- 
dow. Messrs.  Lewis  and  Ozment 
own  also  the  Bank  at  Stone  Fort  in 
Saline  County,  with  Mr,  C.  B.  Oz- 
ment as  cashier. 

Mr.  J.  S.  Lewis  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky August  G,  ISol.  After  his 
school  days  he  attended  medical  col- 
lege, graduating  in  1S78.  On  Oct. 
28,  1S7S,  Mr.  Lewis  was  married  at 
Metropolis,  Ills.,  and  has  five  chil- 
dren. Myrtle,  Roscoe,  Mabel,  Fern 
and  Orman.  In  18  85  Mr,  Lewis 
abandoned  the  practice  of  medicine 
for  business,  coming  to  this  part  in 
1901.  He  is  a  Universalist,  a  Re- 
publican and  a  Mason.  Mr.  Lewis 
has  been  very  successful. 

Mr.  M.  Ozment  was  born  in  Saline 
Co.,  III.,  October  8,  1S6S.  Follow- 
ing his  school  days  he  graduated  in' 
the  business  course  of  the  Gem  City 
Business  College  August,  1893,  and 
March  3,  1897,  was  married  at  Stone 
Fort,  111.  Their  two  children  are 
named  Arel  and  George.  Mr.  Oz- 
nient taught  school  in  Saline  and 
Williamson  Counties  for  six  years, 
coming  to  ,Johnson  City  July  17, 
1901.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat, 
is  a  member  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M.;  R.  A. 
M.;  I.  O.  O.  F.  and  M.  W.  of  A.,  and 
also  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church 
since  1887.  Mr.  Ozment  has  been 
successful  and  has  a  bright  future. 


SAMUEL    B.    BAKER,    Farmer, 
■ft'est     Frankfort,     Franklin     Co.,     111. 


Samuel  B.  Baker  was  born  near 
.Missionary  Ridge,  Hamilton  County, 
111,,  December  2.S,  1S37,  His  fath- 
er dying  when  he  was  but  eight 
years  old,  the  stipport  of  his  mother 
and  two  younger  brothers  devolved 
lar.gely  on   him.      He   worked   for    25 


cents  a  day  in  the  corn,  colton  and 
tobacco  fields  of  the  South,  When 
2(1  years  old  he  had  saved  up  a  little 
money,  and  going  lo  Memphis  went 
lo  buying  furs  in  company  with  .lim 
Walker.  They  bought  principally  in 
Arkansas  and  sent  their  goods  lo  a 
-Memphis   house. 

Being  of  Union  sentiments,  how- 
ever, he  found  the  atmosphere  too 
sultry  for  him  about  18(!1.  After 
the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  went 
to  St.  Louis  and  joined  a  company  of 
scouts  and  guides  under  Capt.  J.  H. 
.Johnson,  They  served  under  Gen, 
N.  P,  Banks  until  his  death  and  then 
followed  the  fortunes  of  Gen.  Franz 
Sigel.  They  foughti  at  Pea  Ridge 
and  in  company  with  Capt.  Johnson, 
L.  Jenkins  and  others,  and  saw  Gen. 
.VlcCullock,  of  the  Confederate  army 
shot  from  his  horse.  Capt.  Johnson 
was  mortally  wounded  at  Lang  De- 
Bayou,  north  of  Helena,  Ark.,  under 
Gen.  Curtis  on  his  raid  when  Helena 
was  captured  in  18G2.  Baker  took 
him  to  Cape  Girardeau  and  staid 
with  him  until  he  died.  After  the 
death  of  Johnson  he  served  for  a 
time  under  Gen.  Powell  Clayton,  and 
then  joined  Co.  D..  13th  111.  Cavalry 
at  Carbondale,  where  he  remained 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  Two  of 
the  Tanner  boys  were  in  the  same 
company  with  Baker,  James  Mc  Tan- 
ner and  Frederick.  Frederick  died 
July  7,  1864,  and  Baker  helped  lo 
bury  him  at  Pine  Bluff,  Ark.  On  or 
about  August  30,  1865,  Baker  was 
mustered  out  at  Pine  Bluff,  and  re- 
turned to  Williamson  Count.;'  and 
his   family. 

While  the  war  was  in  pro.-jress  he 
had  married  Miss  Sarah  Robinson, 
at  Carbondale,  X'ovembsr,  1S(J3.  She 
gave  him  nine  jhildren  and  died 
February  1,  1898.  On  his  return 
from  the  war  they  spent  four  years 
farming  at  old  Bainbridge,  and  from 
there  moved  to  Grassy  Precinct, 
where  they  lived  until  July,  190!, 
when  they  moved  to  their  present 
home.  For  a  second  wife  Mr.  Baker 
took  Nancy  C.  Jourdan.  His  living 
children  are  George  L.  Baker,  at 
Chamness:  Mrs.  Josephine  Kelby, 
Marion;  Mrs.  Lida  Ogden,  at  Herrin. 
Jonathan  A.  Baker,  Carterville;  Mrs. 
Lulu  Maann,  Cottage  Home;  Mrs. 
Rhoda  McGill,  Marion,  and  William 
Baker,  Marion.  He  Is  a  Republican 
in  polities  and  a  member  of  the 
Missionary   Baptist  Church. 


THE    BLACK    DIAMOND    POULTRY 

YARD,   J.   A.    LAUDER.   Prop., 

Carterville,    III. 


Mr.  Lauder  is  a  ver.v  successful 
chicken  fancier  and  makes  a  spe- 
cialty of  the  single-comb  Wack  Mi- 
norcas.  He  belongs  to  the  Black 
Minorca  Club  of  Amreica,  and  his 
birds  have  won  prizes  whenever  and 
wherever    exhibited.      The    fine    bird 


shown  in  the  balf-louH  herein  is 
called  "Champion  of  Illinois,"  and 
has  never  failed  of  the  blue  ribbon 
whenever  exhibited.  He  won  five 
first  prizes  in  1899  to  1900,  and 
scored  9:!  1-2  points  al  the  Illinois 
State  show  at  Quincy  in  January, 
I9IHI,  before  ,lud,ge  Ttieo.  Hewes. 
He  scored  9  5  1-2  points  at  Peoria 
in  1  s;)9  by  Judge  B.  N.  Pierce,  and 
the  same  year  won  first  prize  at 
Nashville  and  O'Fallon,  111.  Mr. 
Lauder  ships  birds  and  eggs  to  all 
parts  of  the  United  States,  and  has 
been  the  judge  of  poultry  at  Marian, 
the  county  seat,   for  several  years. 


THE       HERRIX        STATE-SAVIXGS 
BANK. 

This  new  candidate  for  public  fa- 
vor came  to  the  front  last  year  and 
under  the  careful  management  of  its 
official  board  will  soon  be  recognized 
as  one  of  the  most  solid  financial  in- 
stitutions  of   the  county. 

It  has  a  paid  up  cash  capital  of 
$25,000,  a  surplus  fund  of  $4,000, 
and   deposits  of   over   $53,000. 

The  new  banking  house  erected 
for  the  use  of  the  bank  last  year 
does  credit  to  the  town  and  county 
and  is  fully  written  up  elsewhere  in 
this  volume. 


THE    WILBORN    STORE    CO. 


Is  a  firm  composed  of  W.  R.  Wil- 
born,  of  New  Denison,  and  C.  L.  and 
C.  W.  Wilborn,  of  Attila.  From  a 
very  small  beginning  it  has  grown 
to  respectable  proportions  in  a  brief 
period  and  now  controls  the  trade 
of  the  district  where  the  two  houses 
are  located.  Careful  management 
and  skillful  buying  based  on  the 
solid  foundation  of  honest  dealing 
are  the  elements  of  the  substantial 
progress  made. 

The  plate  shows  the  New  Denison 
Branch  with  Mr.  W.  R.  Wilborn 
standin,a  in   front   of  the  store. 


FRED    GARDNER, 

Vice-President   and  General  Manager 

of   the   New   Ohio   Washed    Coal 

Company. 

Was  born  in  Chicago.  .March  31, 
1867.  He  is  of  English  parentage 
on  both  sides,  his  father,  Robert  H. 
Gardner,  being  boin  in  London, 
Eng.,  January  2ii,  1829,  and  his 
mother,  whose  maiden  name  was 
-Mary  A.  Leavey  was  also  born  in 
London,  July  20,  1835.  Both  are 
still  living  and  show  by  their  vigor 
the  pure  blood  and  steady  habits  of 
a   long-lived  ancestry. 

Their  son  had  the  early  training 
of  the  Chicago  public  schools  and 
entered  Racine  College,  Wisconsin, 
in  1879.  After  graduating  in  1883, 
he  took  up  the  lumber  and  coal  busi- 


SOUVENIR  OF   W  ILLIAMSUiX   COUNTY,  ILLINOIS. 


ness  with  which  he  hai^  been  con- 
nected ever  since.  His  wife's  name 
was  Lillian  \V.  Upton,  a  native  of 
Salem,  Mass.,  to  whom  he  was  unit- 
ed in  maii-iage  December  2  5th, 
1S90.  They  have  one  son,  Robert 
F.  Gardner,  who  was  born  in  Chi- 
cago, March  lU,  1S99.  The  family 
are  Episcopalians  in  their  church 
relations  and  he  is  Republican  in 
politics.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Illinois  Nal'l  Guard  from  iss.j  to  '6;9 
and  is  now  a  member  of  the  A.  F. 
&  '  A.  M.,  the  Xational  I'nion  and 
the   Royal   Arcanum. 


.1.    G.    AFFI.KGATH,    Herriu,   HI. 


.Manager     of    the    White-Ash    Branch 
of   the    Flies   Store   Co. 


Was  born  at  Albion,  111..  October 
10,  18G7.  He  remained  in  his  na- 
tive town  until  he  had  completed 
his  school  education  and  then  turn- 
ed his  attention  to  railroading.  At 
the  age  of  17  he  was  at  work  for 
the  old  L.  E.  &  St.  l.ouis  Ry  Co.. 
now  the  Southern  Ry.  Co.,  and  for 
seven  years  served  them  as  Agent 
and  Telegrapher  in  various  places. 
He  then  secured  a  position  with  the 
S.  W.  Little  Coal  Co.  at  Little,  lud., 
where  he  remained  for  thirteen 
years.  He  began  as  bookkeeper  and 
for  the  last  five  years  of  the  period 
had  charge  of  the  mine. 

He  then  moved  lo  the  new  town 
of  Herrin  and  in  December.  li)iM. 
went  to  work  for  the  Files  Store 
Co.  He  was  very  soon  placed  in 
charge  of  the  White  Ash  Branch, 
which    he    now    runs. 

His  wife  was  Miss  Fannie  Nelson, 
the  daughter  of  .John  and  Sarah  Nel- 
son, of  Winslow,  Ind.  They  were 
married  March  15,  18S7  and  have 
had  one  son,  Carl  G..  now  17  years 
old.  He  is  a  Presbyterian,  a  Repub- 
lican   and    a    Royal    Arch    .Mason. 


THE    NEW    VIRGINIA    COAL    CO. 
Near  Johnson  City,   111. 


This  mine  is  a  hustler,  a  money 
maker,  a  fortunate  and  well  regu- 
lated and  managed  institution.  It 
was  incorporate!  under  the  laws  of 
the  state  of  Illinois  in  1900,  and  be- 
gan to  hoist  coal  in  December,  1901. 
Its  shaft  is  120  feet  deep  and  it  has 
a  nine  foot  vein  of  coal.  The  roof 
is  exceptionally  good  and  there  is 
absolutely  no  gas  in  the  mine.  That 
it  is  carefully  managed  is  shown  by 
the  fact  that  for  the  five  years  it  has 
run  there  has  never  been  a  fatal 
accident.  The  company  own  or 
lease  GOO  acres  of  coal  land  and 
when  running  it  full  capacity  em- 
ploy 300  men  with  a  daily  output 
of  1500  tons.  They  work  at  the 
present  time  Kio  men  and  15  mules 
and  ship  from  soo  to  90(i  tons  daily. 


They  have  four  switch  tracks  con- 
nected with  the  C.  &  hi.  1.  Ry.  line, 
covering  two  miles,  and  can  load 
four  Qifferent  kinds  of  coal  at  the 
same  time  from  the  tour  tracks. 
They  are  fully  equipped  with  first 
motion  hoisting  engines.  Shaker 
Sorens  and  Christy  Box  Car  Loader, 
woo  en  tipple,  seventy  feet  high. 
The  output  for  the  past  year  has 
been  used  by  the  C.  &  E.  1.  Ry.,  giv- 
ing   perfect    satisfaction. 

The  company  has  a  cash  capital 
of  .$GO.ooo  and  the  following  gen- 
tlemen constitute  their  official 
board;  Silas  D.  Moore,  President; 
HJdwin  G.  Rarbach,  Secretary  and 
'i'reasurer;  .lohn  \V.  Mitchell,  Super- 
intedent  of  .Mine.  I'heir  Chicago 
oiiiie  is  at  No.  G'.o  Old  Colony 
building.  .Mr.  Rarbach  informs  the 
writer  that  he  and  his  associates 
sank  the  second  mine  in  Franklin 
County,  which  they  afterwards  sold 
to  the  Dearing  Coal  Company.  It  is 
located  at  West  Frankfort  and  is 
proving  one  of  the  largest  and  best 
in  the  district.  A  well  filled  gen- 
eral store  serves  to  furnish  the  need- 
ed supplies  and  happiness  and  con- 
tentment reigns.  Good  wages  and 
steady  work  is  the  rule  and  no  note 
of  dissatisfaction  has  ever  been 
heard  in  their  midst.  The  proprie- 
tors are  thoroughly  just  and  Christ- 
ian gentlemen  who  recognize  in  each 
worker  a  man  and  a  brother  with 
rights  as  sacred  as  their  own,  and 
prove  both  when  lalior  troubles 
arise  and  how  they  can  be  avoided. 
The  company,  with  an  eye  to  beaut\- 
and  the  comfort  of  their  family  of 
employes,  have  erected  forty  beau- 
tiful cottages  in  a  group  for  their 
use,  forming  a  well-laid  out  and 
picturesque  little  town  as  unlike  the 
unsightly  herd  of  shells  which  dis- 
figure the  surroundings  of  most 
mining  towns  as  black  differs  from 
white.  The  cottages  and  the  well 
kept  gardens  about  them  are  an  in- 
dication of  the  character  both  of  the 
])roprietors  and  their  hel|i,  which 
explains  the  absence  nf  labor 
troubles   in    their   midst. 


CAUTERVILLE       DISTRICT 
COMPANY. 


This  Company  was  formed  in  the 
year  1902,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
modern  mines  in  the  Carterville 
Coal  fields,  having  acquired  S20 
acres  of  thick  vein  coal  lands  lo- 
cated within  a  few  miles  of  the  city 
of  Marion  in  Williamson  County, 
Illinois. 

The  work  of  opening  an  1  devel- 
oping was  pushed  rapidly  from  the 
start  and  by  the  latter  pan  of  1903, 
entries  had  been  driven  and  coal 
was  being  taken  out.  Practically 
all   mining  is  done  with   the  Sullivan 


Punchers,  lun  on  conijiressed  air. 
This  coal  is  mined  after  the  ma- 
chines, produce  large  block  and  is 
very   handsome   in   appearance. 

The  Tipple  is  seventy  feet  high 
and  is  equipped  with  Bond  cages — 
Shaker  screens,  four  loading — also 
one  passing  track.  Litchfield  en- 
gines are  used  in  hoisting,  a  Sul- 
livan high  speed  fan  is  used  in  \en- 
tilation.  There  is  also  a  Chiisty 
Box  Car-loader.  Every  foot  of  mine 
track  is  laid  with  steel  rails  and  the 
pit  cars  large  and  serviceable.  With 
their  complete  and  serviceable 
equipment,  the  Carterville  District 
.Mine  is  enabled  to  prejiare  a  num- 
ber of  grades  of  the  finest  domestic 
and  steam  coals. 

The  officials  of  the  mine  are: 
Sam  H.  Goodall.  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager;  L.  C.  Goodall,  Secre- 
tary; A.  Q.  Mitchell,  Treasurer  and 
.Vssistant  General  Manager;  Mr. 
.lohnson,  Superintendent;  George 
Calhoun,  Bookkeeper;  .1.  E.  Corel, 
Sales  Agent,  :'.u:!  Fisher  Building, 
Chicago,  in. 


JOHN    ADA.M    SEIDL.\. 


First    Engineer    Ciilp    Coal    Co.,    Car 
terville.   Illinois. 


The  sulijecl  of  ibis  slceich  is  a  na- 
tive of  Lafayelte,  Tippecanoe  Co., 
Indiana,  where  he  was  born  April 
11.  IS53,  and  where  he  worked  with 
his  father  on  the  farm  until  he  was 
fifteen  years  old.  His  father,  John 
.\dam  Seidla.  Sr.,  was  born  in  Wit- 
tembury,  Germany.  Martin  Luther's 
old  town,  in  1S22,  and  emigrated  to 
.\nierica  in  1S33.  He  went  into 
farming  and  stock  raising  and  still 
lives  and  farms  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Indiana.  He  tried  to  raise 
his  son  to  the  same  business,  but  he 
was  a  natural  mechanic  and  took  to 
building  and  running  mills,  partic- 
ularly saw  mills,  which  he  followed 
mostly  in  Southern  Illinois,  for 
twenty  years.  He  ran  a  saw  mill  in 
ihe  heavy  timber  of  Southeastern 
-Missouri,  for  two  years  for  his  pres- 
ent  employer.   John   Gulp. 

Feeling  the  need  of  a  better  prep- 
aration for  his  work  than  the  limits 
of  a  common  district  school  provided 
he  took  a  course  as  hoisting  engin- 
eer in  the  Scranton  Correspon  lence 
school  ill  September,  1904.  The 
following  March  he  went  to  Spring- 
field, 111.,  before  the  State  Board  of 
Examiners    and    took    his    certificate. 

His  wife  was  Melissa  Rogers,  the 
daughter  of  Elijah  Ro.gers  to  whom 
lie  was  united  in  marriage  Septem- 
ber 23,  1.S7S.  They  have  had  four 
children  of  whom  two  are  living. 
They  have  two  grandchildren.  He 
is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a  Woodman 
of  the  World,  and  a  Repulilican  in 
politics. 


